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Prediction: Facebook Will Enter the Search Market Next Year | TechCrunch


So now we are gonna have to figure out how to rule the new facebook search engine anyone have any ideas?

jgw899

Good share here...I enjoyed reading it.

Will be interesting to see what unravels, but I have a hard time at the moment seeing Facebook having a search as good as big G. But you never know, and it will be utterly ridiculous if Facebook can control the biggest share of social media users as well as a big piece of the search pie as well. Now that is world domination and that scares me.

ryanmiller1122

Yeah it's for sure not something we need to worry about today or tomorrow. But I like to try and stay a few steps ahead and prepare for the inevitable. I would like to hear some more opinions on the likelihood of this or something like this actually happening.

danielgray

That is really interesting. So let me get this straight Google is trying to enter the social space and the Facebook is trying to become a search engine as well? Haha gotta love the tech companies.

But with sucha bigass user base it definitely makes sense for facebook to enter the search space and as he mentioned in the post become the ultimate homepage since people login to facebook everyday in any case.

ezracollier922

is this real? yeah i heard some prediction on this but then still Google will dominate the search engine.

nuwav

What's the point of having a Facebook Search engine, it makes now sense

nniko

G is so far ahead of the game now which makes it tuff, but fb may make dent eventually.

blureach

I actually wrote a blog post about this like a year ago addressing this.

Facebook can easily enter the search market but the problem comes down to their ability to sift through the garbage. Facebook will have to throw billions into their search business to compete with google. The problem is FB hasn't been very good at deviating at what they do best, Facebook.

I think fb has the power to strongly compete and take a large portion of search marketshare 10-15% relatively quickly from a marketing perspective. The issue is do they want to tackle one of the largest tech companies in the world or go after more low hanging fruit first?

jgw899

I just don't see Facebook having a search engine that people will use and rely on even close to Google. I see them delivering some pretty crappy results to their users, but maybe that will be good for you IM scammers out there

sizzler_chetan

Just like Google is taking the social sharing, G+ votes and such stuff into consideration lately, as they mentioned in the strategy, Facebook too might take the FB likes and shares in a big way. And I am not able to get it, how would a social network search be called so important when compared to something like Google, Live etc.

ugjunk

There is no way they gonna be able to complete google when it comes to search engine.
I am assuming facebook might team up with Bing.

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sizzler_chetan

That would be the biggest mistake FB would do.. although the signs are almost what you are assuming. Search in fb and you would see a few search results taking the source of Bing.

shifatbd

i don't fb will ever be able to knock out big G off the game.

ryanmiller1122

I doing really well with google right now, panda or no panda, and all my LOCAL clients are at at the top or close. So I am a little scared of the possibility of having to learn to game a new system. But there is also opportunity there. I think the chances of this happening are pretty good. The idea that search would be based on what your groups and connections are doing would actually be very benificial to the end user. In the end this could lead to a huge shift in seo. If Facebook somehow figures out a way to do this then you know google will be making serious changes to it's algo, which is never good. The idea that google now has a somewhat decent social platform definitely points this way.

Anyways only time will tell. Thanks for all the good comments, back to work.

selectcornwall

Google have spent years and billions perfecting relevant search results, will be a tough one to compete with, and likewise g+ is going to struggle against fb.
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Pm me if interested

ryanmiller1122

Score 1 for Google: Facebook vs. Google +


Looks like Google may be gaining some ground in this fight. Which is a good thing as far as I am concerned. What do you guys think?

littlefeather

Facebook really thinks they can compete in the search engine market? I just can't see them really going anywhere with this. I can imagine it offering a hosting ground for a lot of spammers just like someone mentioned.

ryanmiller1122

my logic here is that google must be slightly concerned that Facebook is going to make a run at what google does best, search, because they are going after what facebook does best: social. If the threat of Facebook search didn't bother google at all I dont think they would even be thinking about the social arena. Thats just my feelings? Anyone else agree with this logic? Disagree? Let me know

bwong

Interesting, I enjoyed the article.

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vampiro

Well, venturing into other field will be a big plus for Facebook. It will be tough at first but sooner will be embraced by its users... More power to Facebook!

trabzonhaber

thank you facebook seo.

shawnhag

i would like to say it would really give Googles local business/places/maps a run for the money - but with Google Earth/GPS/fuckingeverymobiledevicecintegratedwithit there is no way. they would be better off starting from scratch with a new indexing system an algorith.

maybe a local biz search engine that did not allow directores, and limited domains to having 30 pages per domain. i would LOVE to see who came up on top

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rajtpl

wow! thats awesome

we will get traffic now from more search engines, lol

There is opportunity hidden in every crisis

talibali

interesting. But most of people on fb are for just entertainment.

kersteve109

Facebook now a days is really cool and they make more more money..search engine of facebook will be more interesting and i can wait about it..

Scott_James

I forget the actual number, but I've read that a ridiculous percentage of articles read on the internet are through people clicking on their friends' FB posts. I think facebook could find a way to make a huge dent in search considering they have a whole bunch social connection information to use that is completely hidden from Google

Black Bird

Google is far ahead!

italosmedia

They will take advantage of the huge traffic they got to keep people in searching for stuff

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MarkCharles

They will put up a search engine have no doubt about it.

It's a top-down culture in a company run by a doofus, where techs are asked to implement things based on decisions made by morons. That and the rush (as a knee-jerk response to Google indexing it) will likely ensure it'll be, um, ur, continue to be a viable market for independents.

But what do I actually know? - I basing that on recruitment and development rumours, some knowledge of what Google is doing, some comments made by money people about Facebook's finances - and some extrapolations I plucked out of my arse. Like - MySpace and Facebook, different dogs - same leg action.

I'm much more interested in Google+. Much smaller audience, harder to reach, not as impulsive at purchasing - but they've much more money. When I say smaller audience - Google+ is mostly real people, most of Facebook is bullshit and I'm not just talking about the accounts for fictional characters. I'd be more concerned about how soon the Facebook bubble is going to burst, than a Facebook search engine.

FlashMob

facebook is half as good as what it seems to be, I think fb will not be able to turn the traffic it expects for search and actually many people still do not use fb.

stevenmithen

Mostly people use FB for contact with each other. FB doesn't have enough viewers who come for the information.
FB is good only for those who are friends lover. For search engine fb should change it's name.

robertaoliu

can't wait for the day that this happens.

To all those people saying Google is so far ahead? wtf are you kidding me, and your here posting on a seo forum.

Google is the most retarded outdated peice of crap ever.

1. Authority based on backlinks? Sure back in 2000 when everyone was blogging backlinks could determine a sites buzz and popularity, it's 2011 now, the general population don't blog they use Facebook. Facebook could build a far more accurate search engine by analysing trending topics / urls / websites in it's social data which Facebook denied google access to. Most, if not all the sites that are ranking these days are sites that have been well SEOed not sites which are popular.

2. Ranking based on anchor text? Yea right, even if a site is popular in a niche, other webmasters are not going to naturally link to the site with anchor text like "buy TV", again sites which are ranking for money terms = SEOed sites.

google = stinking fail search engine, but nothing better to use atm.

Go facebook!

Gambit

Facebook would kill it with search if they ever spend enough time to make a kickass algorithm. Something with social mixed in with keywords, plus knowing peoples interests. Basically sounds unstoppable. They have information that google doesn't

Lynch

Hmm option #4 is WTF? Until they don't make a new OS we are fine.

Crazydayz

facebook have great information on it's users but I dont think they will just be able to rely on their likes. It's going to be quite a learning curve for them.

Endy Mulio

I think FB forte is social media, and Google is within search engine. Both are the best in their respective industry. Comparing them is like comparing apple to oranges.

freshmorning

Smashing article !
But Great G will still gonna be there .....


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manishvermani

thanx facebook seo .....

1yerrot

Wuswrongwitdat?

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kersteve109

Facebook now is very cool and i am thinking about that and sound like a good and bad..Well let see.

key_key

wow, this is intersting

The SEO

I don't think so that facebook do it perfectly like Google.

Tedel

Is it just me.... or most of these replies seem made by some autoposting software?

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Broland

Sooo... you don't have a blog integrated into your web site? Cus it's 2011 now, you should just integrate FB instead.

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Broland

Perhaps it's just you. What kind of autoposting software are you using?

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timpane

I would like to hear some more opinions on the likelihood of this or something like this actually happening.I like to try and stay a few steps ahead and prepare for the inevitable.

SocialWiz

Will fail just like Google 1+ did in comparison to Facebook. Certain sites should just stay within their niche.

Samrex

intresting thread. Facebook ads better

Talks_44

I dont think they will make their own search engine.. ads is their way..