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Old google made cool things and make their money off ads and search ranking. New google only cares about beating facebook because they came onto the scene and
by zanny 13y ago
Old google made cool things and make their money off ads and search ranking.
New google only cares about beating facebook because they came onto the scene and took over the front page of everyones Internet role.
I don't even think it has anything to do with bottom lines, either. I can't understand how knowing who spams my G+ page with crap who I friended for an arbitrary reason is more valuable information in how to target me with ads than what RSS feeds I subscribe to and read, which is a direct link to my interests and engagements. A social network doesn't reflect pretty much at all what I am interested in spending money on.
- noir_lord 13y agoIndeed and I think caching all your search queries is a vastly more effective way to figure out how to advertise you than Google+ but I suspect they must see some value in it else why do it.
- makomk 13y agoIt's possible that what matters is not whether Google sees any value in Google+ but whether Wall Street does.
- marcosdumay 13y agoOr the NSA.
- yuhong 13y agoOn this matter, there is this blog post: http://piaw.blogspot.ca/2010/05/organizational-thinking.html http://piaw.blogspot.ca/2010/05/organizational-thinking.html I wonder how and why Vic Gundotra was chosen.