TikTok has surpassed tech giant Google as the most popular website of 2021, media reported.

According to a report by IT security company Cloudflare, the viral video app gets more hits than the US-based search engine, reports BBC. The rankings show that TikTok knocked Google off the top spot in February, March and June this year and has held the number one position since August. In 2020, Google was first, and several other sites, including TikTok, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix, were all in the top 10.

As media reported, it is believed one of the reasons for the surge in Tiktok’s popularity is because of the Covid-19 pandemic, as lockdowns meant people were stuck at home and looking for entertainment.
The social network, which China-based Bytedance owns, now has more than one billion active users worldwide, and that number continues to grow.