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If a company has access to hundreds of millions of profiles, can figure out an effective way of delivering targeted ads, and can effect a fundamental shift in t
by pigbucket 15y ago
If a company has access to hundreds of millions of profiles, can figure out an effective way of delivering targeted ads, and can effect a fundamental shift in the way most people find content on the web (i.e., a shift from keyword search to social search/sharing), then Google's advertising revenue could fall significantly. The obvious existing threat is Facebook. Facebook ads are not good enough yet, but could be relatively soon. I think the question for Google is whether it can catch up on social before Facebook catches up on search and ad targeting.
- sek 15y agoI heard these arguments before but nothing happened so far, facebook has still one of the worst return rate in the industry.
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- ig1 15y agoFacebook could do a lot with advertising which they're choosing not to do at the moment. For example they could target ads based upon status messages which are much more transactional than profile data.