Tech Eye reports:

Social networking website Facebook.com is now more visited in the US than Google, according to figures from Hitwise.

While Facebook has only just over taken Google with 0.03 percent more traffic, it is still significant, and looks to increase in the future. In the past year Facebook member numbers have doubled to about 400 million.

Facebook.com now accounts for 7.07 percent of all US web traffic according to Hitwise, while Google.com is the destination for 7.04 percent of traffic.