Facebook has reached more than 500 million registered users already. In the Philippines, more people are searching now for Facebook than that of Friendster and Multiply. You’ll notice that in late 2008, the number of searches of Friendster decreased tremendously while the number of searches in Facebook spiked and then increased gradually. Multiply is way behind both Facebook and Friendster.

Friendster has a new look which is a bit fresher than before. They seem to promote Yahoo! Mail by letting the soon-to-be users of the said social networking website with a link to create a Yahoo! account if in case they don’t have an email yet.

Philippines is still a Friendster nation despite of the increase of people adding me up in Facebook everyday. And so, Globe Telecoms’ Prepaid Subscribers may enjoy surfing their Friendster for 20 pesos a day. Yup, surf Friendster for 24 hours for only 20 pesos. Those who have mobile phones capable of surfing the internet would surely enjoy this deal.

Well, according to Google Trends data in the Philippines, Friendster.com is still the number one social network in the Philippines. Metrics are based on Google Trends measure of unique visitors for the website (for Philippines region only).