image thumb10 Will The Web Eventually Come Down To Facebook, Google Only?

I was skimming across the reports earlier today and figured out that Facebook has outgrown Yahoo on the Internet. Doesn’t surprise me least bit, not that I had predicted something of the sort, but it was pretty obvious how exponentially the social network has grown in the last five months, especially. And this is only beginning to balloon more.

While those numbers can be put aside, what is worth noting here is the fact that the groups on the social network have grown far more exponentially, starting from 52 million in October to over 620 million presently that are being indexed by Google. Those numbers are far more than what Google indexes from eBay and just a fraction short of the total videos at YouTube. And we are only talking about the groups here, seriously they have spread like wildfire, giving a rough estimate of each user having two groups to their name. And that number is 200 times more than those of pages [around 3 million].

Those numbers have surely grown substantially. Now many of those pages are pure spam tactics, but not all. There are many that are there for a major purpose which include those from brands that use them to engage their consumers with or sports groups giving their fans a place to discuss and gossip about their favorite teams. There some that might sound absolutely ridiculous like groups that exists for hate groups about text messages, etc. The obvious fact here is that there is no criteria or rules and policing to what page can be created and what should not be. Think of of, if you do happen to have groups in that number, each having bulk of information, key words that bait the search engine, you are bound to go up in the indexed pages on any search engine.

What becomes obvious is the fact that I have stated time and again; very soon the Web will be reigning supreme with two names, Google and Facebook. Of course Microsoft will stay there but I really wouldn’t count it in, because it is so different from the two. While all this sounds great, all the praise coming Facebook’s way, I seriously feel sorry for Yahoo that has lost its purple, just a figure of speech, I have no clue why I said said.

To end it, I might sound a bit too pessimistic about the Web scene here, but will the Web eventually come down to Facebook only?