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What keeps bothering me is - why nobody sees the danger Google represents to Facebook. I mean if Google wanted to - they could IMHO mow down Facebook. They hav
by DuncanIdaho 16y ago
What keeps bothering me is - why nobody sees the danger Google represents to Facebook.
I mean if Google wanted to - they could IMHO mow down Facebook. They have waaaay more personal information about all the Facebook users that are also Google users (I believe that is majority of Facebook users), which would enable them to leverage that information and create a much better user experience.
If they could really put their mind to it that is. Unfortunately Google cannot seem to manage that kind of focus - beyond adwords that is. And forget Buzz - that was a miserable failure and probably even wasn't ever meant to be anything beyond Proof Of Concept.
However Google just might be working on a FB killer as we speak. In my oppinion Google has better infrastructure, more resources and is in a position to really give FB a run for it's money.
- bruceboughton 16y agoFor an awful lots of people (the majority?), I would posit that Facebook has a lot more information about them than Google.
- lsc 16y agomaybe? facebook has the info you want to share with (some) other people. Google knows what weird porn you like. My point is that facebook only knows things about you that you choose to share with other people. Google, potentially, knows much more. That, and it is possible that your searches paint a more truthful picture of what you are actually interested in than what you put on your facebook profile for consumption by family and/or potential dates.
- jambo 16y agoFacebook also knows what websites you go to now. They have all of the log data from serving almost ubiquitous like buttons & "popular on facebook" components now.
- brown9-2 16y agoI think you are missing the key to "mowing down" Facebook which Google can't conquer with a technical solution: convincing hundreds of millions of people, many of them barely computer-savvy, to switch their routines from Facebook to the Google Social Network.
- orangecat 16y agoNo problem, just tweak the search results for "facebook login".
- DuncanIdaho 16y agoI'm not missing anything - like I said Google at present is unable of such strong focus/commitement. But... If google were headed by Steve Jobs or Larry Ellison - like persona, then you could see what I mean :)