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Facebook the No. 1 Christmas Website

Social network crowds out Google and Yahoo for first time

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 29, 2009 2:00 PM CST

(Newser) – Facebook got a big present this holiday season: It was the No. 1 US website on Christmas and on Christmas Eve. Facebook, which lagged behind Google in second place last year, trounced that site and rival Yahoo—though the search engines generated more traffic throughout... Read full story »

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