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What facebook is trying to build is not a search engine. Rather, I believe they're building more of a recommendation engine. As your friends (in theory) begin t

What facebook is trying to build is not a search engine. Rather, I believe they're building more of a recommendation engine. As your friends (in theory) begin to "like" a bunch of stuff on the web, next time you do a search for hotels, the hotels your friends "liked" will show up. The meta data for each site/artist, etc you like will also give them (in theory) enough data to recommend not just on what your friends like. Whoever unlocks the magic in the data and offers a compelling, personalized experience will rule the next decade.

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> As your friends (in theory) begin to "like" a bunch of stuff on the web, next time you do a search for hotels, the hotels your friends "liked" will show up. The ranking algorithm used by Google most definitely factors in the clicks that webpage received ... and they can also calculate if a user is satisfied with a certain result (if not, that user will get back to the search results page). Google has all the data it needs for me to view the hotels my friends liked. Not only that, but it has better data ... when one of my friends says he likes something on Facebook, that's mostly a vanity / ego-inflating action (oh, look at me, I'm so great for liking this stuff). When one of my friends clicks on a hotel link in Google, though, the recommendation he gives is implicit, not explicit. The problem with Google is that they have a lot of noise (they are the first target when webmasters want to become visible, so every piece of shit on the web is crawled by Google). And in the battle of spam versus Google, spam is winning. If you don't believe me, try searching for interesting stuff to read in a certain area (like ruby on rails) on http://delicious.com http://delicious.com. The same principle applies, with the difference being that delicious doesn't index the content on those pages and it also doesn't have a lot of spam ... so if you're searching for clear tags, like "data mining", you're going to get pretty good results, simply because bookmarking a link on delicious is not ego-inflating. So, IMHO ... one day a better search engine will emerge from social networks, but it's not going to be based on any "like" button.

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> As your friends (in theory) begin to "like" a bunch of stuff on the web, next time you do a search for hotels, the hotels your friends "liked" will show up. The ranking algorithm used by Google most definitely factors in the clicks that webpage received ... and they can also calculate if a user is satisfied with a certain result (if not, that user will get back to the search results page). Google has all the data it needs for me to view the hotels my friends liked. Not only that, but it has better data ... when one of my friends says he likes something on Facebook, that's mostly a vanity / ego-inflating action (oh, look at me, I'm so great for liking this stuff). When one of my friends clicks on a hotel link in Google, though, the recommendation he gives is implicit, not explicit. The problem with Google is that they have a lot of noise (they are the first target when webmasters want to become visible, so every piece of shit on the web is crawled by Google). And in the battle of spam versus Google, spam is winning. If you don't believe me, try searching for interesting stuff to read in a certain area (like ruby on rails) on http://delicious.com http://delicious.com. The same principle applies, with the difference being that delicious doesn't index the content on those pages and it also doesn't have a lot of spam ... so if you're searching for clear tags, like "data mining", you're going to get pretty good results, simply because bookmarking a link on delicious is not ego-inflating. So, IMHO ... one day a better search engine will emerge from social networks, but it's not going to be based on any "like" button.