Facebook beats Google as top internet destination in America

US web surfers are spending more time socialising on Facebook than searching with Google, according to new data from researchers at comScore.

In August, people spent a total of 41.1 million minutes on Facebook, comSore said Thursday, about 9.9% of their web-surfing minutues for the month.

That just barely surpassed the 39.8 million minutes, or 9.6%, people spent on all of Google's sites combined, including YouTube, the free Gmail e-mail program, Google news and various other content sites.