Tik Tok has dethroned Google to become the world\u2019s most visited website, new data has revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The viral video app ended the search giant\u2019s dominance, which had seen it rank as the most popular domain for all of 2020 and the first part of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google.com \u2013 which includes Maps, Translate, Photos, Flights, Books, News, and others \u2013 was unable to stave off the challenge posed by its nascent rival, which now counts more than 1 billion active users around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TikTok.com also overtook other US tech behemoths that ranked above it last year, including the domains of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its parent company, China-based ByteDance, was the only non-US site to feature in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TikTok\u2019s ascendency was recorded by security firm Cloudflare\u2019s Year in Review, which noted that its unrivalled popularity began to emerge towards the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was on 17 February, 2021, that TikTok got the top spot for a day,\u201d Cloudflare wrote in a blog post detailing the web trends of the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn March, TikTok got a few more days and also in May, but it was after 10 August, 2021, that TikTok took the lead on most days. There were some days when Google was #1, but October and November were mostly TikTok\u2019s days, including on Thanksgiving (25 November) and Black Friday (26 November).\u201d
One of the reasons cited for users flocking to the short-form video app en masse in 2021 has been the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced people to spend more time indoors and away from real-life social gatherings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These online browsing patterns continued even when lockdown restrictions came to an end, with separate analysis published by Virgin Media O2 on Wednesday revealing that \u201cthe summer of freedom\u201d created an opportunity to refresh and update their social media accounts.
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