Any social network today is going to need critical mass to survive. Critical mass brings to tons and tons of user information. Is the combination of search an

Any social network today is going to need critical mass to survive. Critical mass brings to tons and tons of user information. Is the combination of search and social so much worse? Google is trying to get into social the only way it knows how, by combining it to search and putting it on all their properties. Is this really evil or the only way to compete? I would actually prefer if more companies got into both search and social. It would be great if Facebook would build a "social search" function as well. I think this is more realistic than wishing that companies would stick to one thing only. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft - they all want it all. More competition would mean a better experience for all, including better privacy, and perhaps something more federated. These guys are all attacking the same problems in different ways, but in the end, it's all the same thing.