Facebook and Google are the two most popular and most visited websites in the entire cyber world, earning at least 40 percent of internet users. The main difference between the two is that Google is a search engine, while Facebook is a social networking website.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997. It is the most used web search engine today, a program that searches keywords on the internet. Google Inc. is a public corporation with a primary objective to organize data and make it useful and accessible for every user on the web. Google has millions of users and provides billions of search results every day.
Facebook was launched by then Harvard dropout Marck Zuckerberg in 2004. It is a social networking website with the primary service of connecting friends, families, and business associates, regardless of their locations. The site began in Harvard as a networking website for college students and later expanded to the world for everyone to participate. To date, Facebook has over 500 million active users.
Key Takeaways
- Google, founded in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, is a search engine that searches keywords.
- Facebook, developed by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004, is a social networking site that serves as a channel for meeting friends, families, and business associates.
- Both have search features. Google searches for keywords on the content of almost all articles available on the internet, while Facebook searches people within the network.
Because of their intended uses, these sites have become the two most popular websites.
