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It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by graf

by ppod 11y ago

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

dgacmu 11y ago
Or it could be a desire to provide maximally relevant search results. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Dr. Freud. Not-a-disclaimer: I'm spending the year at Google (as a visiting scientist; I don't own stock and have no financial interest in its success). You might be surprised by how strong the desire is to do the right thing by users and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for. There's not always an ulterior motive -- happy searchers made Google what it is today.
- lightyrs 11y ago
  Happy searchers _and_ AdWords.
- franze 11y ago
  "Gut gemeint ist das Gegenteil von gut!" German saying! Even with the right motive, you can make - in Googles case: systematic - wrong decisions.
  - camillomiller 11y ago
    "Hell is paved with good intentions" 1600 Mystic John Ray, later repurposed by Karl Marx.
  - TillE 11y ago
    The literal translation is much stronger: "good-intentioned is the opposite of good".
dhaivatpandya 11y ago
This doesn't seem like such a bad idea. I don't care about most of the stuff on Twitter. But, if I'm searching for something and a Tweet-like "post" exists that is relevant to what I'm searching for, I might like that.
notatoad 11y ago
To me this seems like the polar opposite of social. There's no conversation, there's no interaction, and there's no involvement for "regular people". This is just a new ad unit.
bobajeff 11y ago
>They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page. Wasn't that the strategy with Google Plus when it came out?
Dylan16807 11y ago
But what makes it more effective than iGoogle wasn't?

by ppod 11y ago

dgacmu 11y ago

Or it could be a desire to provide maximally relevant search results. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, Dr. Freud. Not-a-disclaimer: I'm spending the year at Google (as a visiting scientist; I don't own stock and have no financial interest in its success). You might be surprised by how strong the desire is to do the right thing by users and make it easy for them to find what they're looking for. There's not always an ulterior motive -- happy searchers made Google what it is today.

lightyrs 11y ago
Happy searchers _and_ AdWords.
franze 11y ago
"Gut gemeint ist das Gegenteil von gut!" German saying! Even with the right motive, you can make - in Googles case: systematic - wrong decisions.
- camillomiller 11y ago
  "Hell is paved with good intentions" 1600 Mystic John Ray, later repurposed by Karl Marx.
- TillE 11y ago
  The literal translation is much stronger: "good-intentioned is the opposite of good".

dhaivatpandya 11y ago

This doesn't seem like such a bad idea. I don't care about most of the stuff on Twitter. But, if I'm searching for something and a Tweet-like "post" exists that is relevant to what I'm searching for, I might like that.

notatoad 11y ago

To me this seems like the polar opposite of social. There's no conversation, there's no interaction, and there's no involvement for "regular people". This is just a new ad unit.

bobajeff 11y ago

>They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page. Wasn't that the strategy with Google Plus when it came out?

Dylan16807 11y ago

But what makes it more effective than iGoogle wasn't?