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Google's user engagement model is to send visitors away as quickly as possible, in such a manner that they want to come back soon. The Yahoo/Facebook model, on
by RyanMcGreal 15y ago
Google's user engagement model is to send visitors away as quickly as possible, in such a manner that they want to come back soon. The Yahoo/Facebook model, on the other hand, is to create a big enough garden that visitors want to stick around. The former model is not afraid of users being able to extract their stuff, whereas the latter loses much of its value when users can access their stuff outside the garden.
- eCa 15y agoThat was the old search-centric Google, not the Google of Gmail and G+ etc. The more time you spend in Google's Garden, the more ads you'll see and the more they are based on the data you bring into the Garden. They no longer want you to leave.
- gwern 15y agoI recently tried out the G+ exporting functionality; it seemed to work fairly well for everything I had posted. (Not sure if it pulled my comments on other peoples' posts - didn't check that.)