‘Facebook May Already Be Taking Away Searches From Google’ – ‘Mashable’

Seth Fiegerman says, “Even before Facebook started rolling out its smart search engine earlier this year, it may have been taking away some searches from Google.

The number of searches done on search engines in the U.S. dropped by 3% in 2012, according to a new report from comScore, even though the number of people searching increased by 4%. Google, in particular, saw the number of searches decline by 2% last year.

This decline comes even though Google and search engines overall experienced an increase in the total number of U.S. users performing searches”.