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They never positioned it as a Facebook-killer. That's an artifact of the tech press. Like deelowe said, Google has been very consistent about this.
by mkr-hn 14y ago
They never positioned it as a Facebook-killer. That's an artifact of the tech press. Like deelowe said, Google has been very consistent about this.
- taligent 14y agoCool. So at some point they will be integrating Facebook then. You know because they aren't competitors or anything silly like that.
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- objclxt 14y agoReally? Facebook represents a problem for Google: when your primary revenue source is display ads you want people to be looking at your adverts. Google+ is their solution to this problem - let people carry out the sort of things they use Facebook for, but on the Google.com domain (and with Google provided ads). I think it's pretty clear one of the primary drivers behind Google+ is to reduce the amount of time users spend on Facebook and transfer it back to Google. The new 'Events' features are a good example of this. The only reason Google aren't going around saying they're going to 'kill Facebook' is that it's only going to result in inevitable embarrassment. What Google PR says and how they develop their product strategies internally are very different things.
- mkr-hn 14y agoI made no comment on whether or not it was a competitor.
- jan_g 14y agoYes, I find it similar to Wolfram Alpha. The creators constantly reiterated that it's not intended as a competitor to Google, while the press hailed alpha as a Google search killer.