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Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Nkokhi Mluh Mlangeni — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:11:10 -0000

Its war and we benefit.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Sina — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:26:58 -0000

To make the real-time Facebook useful for research purposes if would be good to know how many people use the privacy settings or how many people i can search for without being their friend. Anyone knows?
Thanks.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Alexander Bickov — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:40:15 -0000

Great post

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Harold Overdijk — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:48:13 -0000

When I try out FB search it seems to go by "titles" mostly. Moreover more by "single keyword" titles. Keywords somewhere deeper in the title, or keywords on pages/notes are not found. Even if they're more recent.

So not sure how effective a search IS in this way, or am I totally missing the point here?

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

padmanaban — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:45:05 -0000

I like google anyhow. If there is a competition only more features can be included in short times.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Matthew — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:55:58 -0000

Will Facebook address filtering? At least 90% of my newsfeed is crap like "Which Harry Potter Character Are You?" It makes it impossible to try and follow anything real in Facebook's Status updates. I'd like some attention to relevancy.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Adem — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:25:17 -0000

Goods ;)

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Paul — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:14:39 -0000

There's a time and a place for social search. I don't need my friends to recommend technical articles but I would turn to them for movie advice. This might take a small bite out of Google...but I doubt it will be much more than that.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Jen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:56:51 -0000

Thank you! I COMPLETELY agree. As someone who's been using Facebook since college (when it was purely for college students), I find it somewhat hard to swallow a lot of these changes. Don't get me wrong, I like change. But not change for change's sake. I personally don't feel as though the service they are providing now is any better than the one that I originally signed up for however many years ago.

I also understand that there is a need to monetize this service and if you're going to try to make some money off of it - you want to make as much as you can, right!? But I just wish there was some way they could do that without turning their backs on the loyal users who helped them reach this level of success in the first place.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Twitte_r Skins — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:50:58 -0000

Its all about saving FACE no need to throw the BOOK at google.

Do you see what I did, golly gosh.

www.Twitterskins.co.uk - Twittery stuff

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

GodMode — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:47:39 -0000

Now this should be quite interesting. Whenever there is a war between the service providers it is the consumers/customers that benefit. Hope we can benefit as much as possible with this one.

Cheers.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Bryan Karp — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:43:05 -0000

That is fine if Facebook improves its search, a much needed improvement. Improving search within facebook though won't help customers / searchers find what it is they are ultimately looking for which is why people go to Google. People (at least in my mind) use google to find something, not to see what Bryan is doing...they use Facebook to connect with family, friends, play games, etc. I don't see people going to Facebook to find out what book they should buy, what times movies are playing, etc. they'll go to google first to find the cinema then navigate to appropriate cinema, bookstore, etc. #fb

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Renan Fernandes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:16 -0000

amazing! i don't have facebook anyways! google makes me think that it's a good searcher and sometmes the errors makes me tic! #crying

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

apage — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:59:58 -0000

Real time search is definitely an incredibly functional tool. A good website in this space is www.gethighnote.com, which has search as well as track and share. It's results are pretty useful and the track has helped me find some pretty cool information that might otherwise get lost.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

TJ — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:57:23 -0000

I am trying to figure what Google is taking from all this, first we have bing making a come up, now Facebook dives deeper into the competition. My eyes and ears are peeled. Great post.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

tunguy3n — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:10 -0000

The thing is, right now Facebook is used mostly to communicate and share with friends, but to use is as a search engine, that trend might not pick up. Even as a real-time search engine, even if my homepage is set to Facebook, i wouldn't be opt to replace the usage of google with FB. Overall I think that FB, with the acquisition of FF, might prove to be a good subsitute, but with Google redesigning its search engine completely, who knows what is in stored for the future. GReat Post btw.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

willwhutson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:52:06 -0000

I think you've made some good points, I also think though, that FF will help the broadcast options for facebook users, something facebook hasn't been interested in nor really capable of doing efficiently on a large scale.

Good points though.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Californian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:15:47 -0000

Worthy? Not at all. Google is a great company that deserves (for lack of a better word) success in their ventures, whereas facebook kills things. FriendFeed will die, just like innovation in the areas you mentioned have, all thanks to facebook. Let's look at photos: auto-tagging? Oh no, that would be too much work. Face recognition grouping? Nope. Oh, but Picasa (from Google, although this isn't my point here) has those. Link sharing? There isn't much to innovate there, so I suppose they're off the hook with that. Oh and please don't get me started on their news feed. facebook had a really decent one before they decided to kill *their own*! Now it's just a jumbled mess where stories and photos go to die. How many options do I have for email notifications? Few. I loved FriendFeed, but now I must leave it.
As a side note, I don't think this acquisition was planned a long time ago. FF's blog? Blogger (owned by Google; a company which they didn't destroy, like YouTube or GrandCentral). And you can't really integrate FF with facebook atm anyway.
Wave will help Google become more social, as Reader has recently, but I'm sure they will integrate all of their community-oriented products (and your Profile) into one in the coming months. Perhaps it will be along the lines of Orkut, but hopefully it will be even better. Oh, and Google will probably integrate with real-time very, very closely pretty soon (with a Twitter partnership perhaps), and I don't mean like Caffeine. Maybe that is where it will show up first, but it should have a little "real-time" option next to the others, while still having the most relevant ones at the top, like with Maps or News.
I hope Google takes facebook down for gobbling up what used to be a good service.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Elizabeth K. Barone — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:49 -0000

"Facebook has proven that it has a knack for knowing when to tweak and change features..."

This might be useful for going up against other brands, but it tends to aggravate a lot of users. I've almost stopped using Facebook several times for this reason alone; the site is no good to me if I can't figure out where to update my Pages or status.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Guest — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:27:20 -0000

This has to be said...

C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

meh — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:50:35 -0000

Guys like you have been writing buzzword and cliche filled CRAP like this for more then a decade. Do you tell yourself that, maybe today it's true? Don't.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Tweeminence — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:04:14 -0000

Facebook's new search sounds great, but I still think twitter search has the potential to be the best real time information engine if they can ever get all tweets indexed in real time with a reasonable spam filter

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Bob F — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:00:43 -0000

The point isn't to be number one in search -- it is to be number one in visitors. Right now, number one in search IS number one in visitors, but it might not always be so.

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

See-ming Lee (SML) — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:46:59 -0000

The only thing that frightens me most is what'd happen to me when I fail to become an 'early adopter'... something I'm barely holding onto thanks to my Twitter and Friendfeed buddies...

Re: The New Search War: Google vs Facebook

Kathy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:06:22 -0000

It is good that facebook is improving its search engine capability. However, I would always prefer Google to any other search engine cos its easy.

By the way, Facebook search is powered by Bing. Competition huh???

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