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With this, and the rumor of Google starting a new Facebook competing service, is the war between Google->Facebook heating up in the same way that Google->Apple

With this, and the rumor of Google starting a new Facebook competing service, is the war between Google->Facebook heating up in the same way that Google->Apple has? Why does Google feel the need to dominate every corner of our Internet experience? Is it because their eventual business model is to wrap ads on all content everywhere? Facebook's business model is to add every physical item to the social graph, so I suppose there are natural conflicts there.

ergo98 16y ago
Dominate or be dominated. Facebook is increasingly becoming "the internet" for a lot of people. They interact with businesses there, communicate with peers, keep up on what is new, enjoys games and entertainment, etc. Facebook, without doubt, wants to be your internet. They want to wrap their ads around everything you can do. Google is the same. As is Microsoft. As is Apple. As is everyone else.
dinedal 16y ago
Why does Microsoft need to be in the gaming market? In short, because they can expand there and expect to succeed since the fields are closely related, and any short comings can be fixed by throwing money at them. Yes, Google is trying to own the internet from the power lines it runs on, the air waves it transmits on, to the machines used to access it. Why do you think Henry Ford owned a steel mill? Do you think that he shouldn't have entered the steel market and just bought steel from the existing mills?
brown9-2 16y ago
Do you have any further info on that rumor? This is something distinct from Buzz, Orkut, etc?
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- cmelbye 16y ago
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/google-me-googles-faceboo_n_626968.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/google-me-googles-f...
access_denied 16y ago
> Why does Google feel the need to dominate every corner of our Internet experience? I think a lot of that is preventing the internet to become a closed box. Google needs the open web to stay open. Not only for monetization reasons but also to be abble to gather data. Companies like Facebook or Microsoft want to own the whole net, so "war" is unevitable.
mkramlich 16y ago
Am I the only one that thinks that a merger between Facebook and Google would be a juggernaut in terms of being a one-stop shop for unified online user activity awareness and advertising?

ergo98 16y ago

Dominate or be dominated. Facebook is increasingly becoming "the internet" for a lot of people. They interact with businesses there, communicate with peers, keep up on what is new, enjoys games and entertainment, etc. Facebook, without doubt, wants to be your internet. They want to wrap their ads around everything you can do. Google is the same. As is Microsoft. As is Apple. As is everyone else.

dinedal 16y ago

Why does Microsoft need to be in the gaming market? In short, because they can expand there and expect to succeed since the fields are closely related, and any short comings can be fixed by throwing money at them. Yes, Google is trying to own the internet from the power lines it runs on, the air waves it transmits on, to the machines used to access it. Why do you think Henry Ford owned a steel mill? Do you think that he shouldn't have entered the steel market and just bought steel from the existing mills?

brown9-2 16y ago

Do you have any further info on that rumor? This is something distinct from Buzz, Orkut, etc?

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cmelbye 16y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/google-me-googles-faceboo_n_626968.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/28/google-me-googles-f...

access_denied 16y ago

> Why does Google feel the need to dominate every corner of our Internet experience? I think a lot of that is preventing the internet to become a closed box. Google needs the open web to stay open. Not only for monetization reasons but also to be abble to gather data. Companies like Facebook or Microsoft want to own the whole net, so "war" is unevitable.

mkramlich 16y ago

Am I the only one that thinks that a merger between Facebook and Google would be a juggernaut in terms of being a one-stop shop for unified online user activity awareness and advertising?