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Google wanted to take on Facebook. I'd contend that they didn't succeed, and I suspect most would agree. LinkedIn has a market, but it apparently isn't the one

• jldugger 11y ago
  > Google wanted to take on Facebook. Indeed, the internal argument was that Google was blind to all the data within Facebook, and thus FB would be in a stronger long term position to sell targeted ads. LinkedIn, in contrast, is already Google indexed. It'd be difficult to bootstrap their company without exposure, since it's a double sided social network.
  • firebones 11y ago
    But when has Google ever really gone deep and sustainable in a vertical like this? They don't seem to have staying power in anything that isn't a pure internet infrastructure essential. LinkedIn doesn't seem to be the kind of thing they could nail, or would commit to even if they did have some fledgling success.
• randycupertino 11y ago
  > the awful "inspirational" memes I see so often on my LinkedIn feed Heh- my instagram feed is clogged up with inspirational memes. Interestingly, they're posted the most by the least successful people. Linkedin skeeved me out and I stopped using it after they started spamming me constantly to add all these random people I barely know to my professional network, like a dude I sold a couch to on craigslist in 2007. No thanks, Linkedin. No thanks.