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Will Google Compete With Facebook? Er...It Already Is, Folks. - John Battelle's Searchblog

jimboflush

I recently read Fb has made 800 million profit... Google makes 10X that.

And all that hyper concerning Bing catching up... BS. Unless a major technology change happens.

seolinker

Wait for a next year. If Yahoo + Bing deal will workout Google will be no more than 50-55% at least in US

P.S. I care about my traffic, not their profit lol. You just simply stated I need to spend 10 times more on Google while FB traffic > Google traffic already !

gordy

Even I'm getting pretty much traffic from FB. But I have never invested a penny on FB. I have used adwords, and I have to say that Google rocks ! Anyways, at the moment, Google is the ultimate guru of advertising solutions.

seolinker

Start invest in FB then and compare it with Google.

cheshire

Just be happy they're allowing you to spend money with them .... today.

faceblogger

Always! Google is greater than facebook! FB will become like myspace one day!!!

ExtremeWriting

When it comes down to it, it's about who is truly progressing in the online world. Sure, FB has actually drawn a lot of people away from MySpace, but there is always something greater in the works.

When FB gets put to shame, Google will continue to be a part of the lives of many.

Sharksfan

I would like to see nothing better than Google biatch-slapped out of their monopoly.

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faceblogger

Google is in many many business whereas FB is only with social networking!!!!

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DevD94

so many fake profiles nwo on FB, google will give us Good Quality work.

seolinker

You are right sir

faceblogger

Very well said!

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seolinker

especially when you want to buy viagra online, yeah lot of universities selling it lately lol

faceblogger

Yeah..
I wonder how it happens

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Damain

Just because myspace became unpopular doesn't mean all new social network sites will. Has ebay or amazon become unpopular?

There was a pretty big problem with myspace (shitty html profiles) and I don't remember it doing much innovation. Facebook seems to be always pushing for new features in the same way google has, so by doing this they're trying to avoid being a myspace.

Dispel

Thread fail all over this motherfucker.

Consequences will never be the same.

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bobby

Google has a lot of untapped niches, and google is on the cusp of a few great things that will throw some pretty heavy weights into the scale.

These are things that facebook is a long ways off of.

Already in motion)
1)Searching Videos and indexing the words/content of the video for contextual searching. They did this with the 2008 presidential stuff and it was in the labs for awhile, seems to have gone quieter now, hard to find info on that. But if google starts indexing videos and being able to search content like that, it will greatly help secure them above yahoo+msn (bing). Imagine them indexing all tv stations and making it searchable, or all Netflix movies etc, any video.

This will create an entirely new niche.
Contextual Video Marketing.

2)Google has another couple of things in the works.
Google Docs this if tuned a lot more it could impact Microsoft office (which is Microsoft’s biggest cash cow), its a ways off but we'll have to wait and see.
[msn/yahoo have nothing in this niche]

3)Android phones are getting really popular and in the new HTC (and probably some older models [i have an HTC so familiar with them]). Don't know if you've played with the "smart search" yet on these, but being able to search relative to your location, restraunts/businesses is addicting.
[msn/yahoo have nothing in this niche that I’m aware of]

Predictions)

I'd expect google to tackle a large social gaming thats entirely cross platform. Tie-in phones/pcs and maybe even playstion (xbox won't do it[thanks MSFT]) on a series of social gaming, all with ability of live video/audio. So you can play cards with aunts and uncles on your phone, on your pc. Even with grandma on her Wii!
Also this would help erode yahoo's market share of their games, which MSN did poorly (think zone).

Next I’d expect that google will attempt to literate the illiterate by putting a heavy advertising campaign on tv that explains how "simple" the new products are to use and that they are free. Furthermore tie-in all web enabled devices ("will be quoted as Standarized devices etc"), so android/pc/iphone/ipad/ipod and possibly ps3.

This will help build the coffin that may eventually contain yahoos market share.

Now with all that in place, it sounds like a pretty good base of content to build an amazing social site.

Facebook did good getting attached with cell phones, tons of users operate from their phone.

But Google could do so much more as a portal/social site.

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netguru88

I agree with that. Surely FB has lots of members but compare that to something that indexed almost all the sites in the world.

blog8491

FB is another one. Anyway they have a big database of users. It's an advantage.

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ly2 from WF

Man, maybe it will be as huge as wave or buzz!

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Blastyourass

FaceBook will be just another MySpace if they keep growing. In fact, most all the scum from MySpace has now moved over to FB.

The future is social networks like this one, the WF. Niche mini social networks that focus on a particular like, business or trend. Not a social platform for everyone and their mothers.

If Google was a bit smarter, they would partner with thousands of webmasters who own these niche social platforms. Let these owneers keeep their branding and uniqueness, while helping one another with their online goals.

seoworking

I dont think google can compete and win against Facebook, though google search is important I dont think People spend hours searching as they do on Facebook, moreover Facebook has a huge member database...Good luck Google

clyde

I would really rather Google partner up with FB in some way TBH.

but with MS owning a percentage of Google I don't see that happening anytime soon.

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seoworking

You are right I dont think it will happen in the near future, though it might happen when some company grows bigger than these forums and threatens them......

aparadekto

Compete, yes. Beaten, no.

majorkontrapelo

Google is really up into something. They recently hired Max Levchin (Paypal co-founder/Slide Founder) and Angstro creator Rohit Khare. Now they have a long time Googler (Vic Gundotra) and 2 guys who have worked on/with Facebook with Rohit and Max in their engineering dept.

Rumors say that it's Google Me...

xservices

FB can never reach google. More over google is much more better and convinient to use.

evillo

If facebook integrates a worldwide sophisticated search engine into their platform (they have the budget for it don't they?) , imagine how many members around the world would be ditching google and start getting used to search right from their facebook profile page for shoes and kitchenware. This could also open a huge market of advertisers seeking to showup on facebook's SERPs. And later on, the SE would get more popular drawing more non-member searchers that will get used to using it for their day to day searches and end up becoming members anyway. Damn, facebook should hire me solely based on my innovative ideas. j/k

maxifwl

Google doesn't need to compete with Facebook, since Google is much better and bigger than FB. Actually, I think that is FB which is trying to compete with Google, didn't make FB an alliance with Bing lately?

imkevintan

This is a pretty interesting thread. I can't imagine Google letting anyone beat them out at anything. We'll see...I'll bet they'll figure out a way to buy Facebook when it's all said and done!

charityblake

Hey It's true. Maybe one day FB will be like myspace. But currently FB continues to grow. Even to find out about someone, more people are now looking at FB. It is no wonder that now FB rival Google. Oh come one, something that is always on the top will not always be above.

theentry

Nah FB will eventually fail as myspace did..

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nuwav

Theres know competitation, ones a social network, the other is a search engine. It looks to me that Facebook is trying to dominate the internet and its winning, more and more sites and using FB viral buttons and Facebook logins.

Ulixes

Except that it doesn't work like that in real life. People want to be able to contact, chat, and share hilarious cat photos with everyone they know - on the same platform. Think of it as convergence similar to cell phone/ipod/camera -> iphone.
Want to talk about a TV show? You don't have to join daytimetvaddicts.com when you can click 3 buttons to join the Facebook group for that specific show. If anything, Facebook is creating a greater ability to talk niche topics, as the barrier for entry (setup/initial userbase growth) is being lowered to putting "Modern Family" into the search bar.

TheWicker

I think future is where Steam is if you guys are aware of it.... they have one of best programmers, made social network where you can play decent games

webjedi

I didn't want to throw Bobby's big huge explanation in my post but put it this way, I repped him for adding a lot of thought to the conversation and being mostly correct.

Have you used google+ at all ? It sucks.

Point.

Bingo, and I also think that niche searching is also going to be big. Why search all of the Net when I can just use a sports engine ? Or a business engine, or a porn engine or my own custom engine where I have turned other, irrelevant niches off in results..

I think that Google is pulling a Microsoft. They are trying to be everything, do everything and dominate, while cutting corners inside their own establishment.

They need to stick to being a search engine. That is what they are and that is what makes them profit.

Myspace DID fail from all the shitty HTML pages I agree but if they would have stuck to being a music based, band blogging platform they would still be successful.

We are lucky that we only have to SEO for one search engine right now. Imagine owning 100 sites and having to SEO for 7 different search engines. That would be a bitch. Google's domination is great for us Let it be.

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freelancer_dame

I think you just can't compare Facebook and Google head on. One must consider the product that the site is promoting. The target audience catered by these two online giants will make all the difference.

Talks_44

Indeed FB is a good business, but you cant compare it with google..not now not next year/s !