Google passes Facebook as best global website of 2012
Google has overtaken Facebook and has been declared the number one global website of 2012. Facebook barely managed to grab first place last year, and now it’s dropped down to second.
The results are part of the 2012 Web Globalization Report Card (the eight edition), put together by web globalization firm Byte Level Research . This year, the company reviewed 105 websites across 17 industries, as well as mobile websites and mobile apps, to better understand how companies are balancing global and mobile strategies.
You can see the top 25 websites on the right. The top 10 websites support an average of more than 50 languages and also demonstrate a high degree of global design consistency across most, if not all, their localized sites.
Although Google is reportedly struggling to harmonize its global navigation across its many Web services, the search giant is also investing in globalization. Google now supports more than 140 languages on its search engine and its new Google+ app supports 40 languages. Facebook’s mobile app, by comparison, supports just 13 languages. Although Facebook is still improving its global navigation, the firm found the social networking giant’s language growth stalled in 2011.
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