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03-18-2011, 10:13 AM
I'd like to start a discussion and hear some of your views and opinions as to why Google and Facebook are in a showdown.
Who's right? Mr. Zuckerberg? Who's being greedy? Google?
Everyone knows the ensuing battle's been brewing for a few years now, and most of us know a lot has to do with traffic, revenues and page-views. Facebook has millions of members and Google has millions of users - but is it so hard for Google to display a New Zealand type of personality or for Facebook to be as friendly as Iceland?
BING! Maybe BING is sitting silently behind the scenes pushing Facebook in certain directions and into making certain business decisions that affect Google. Yesterday there was news that Facebook asked users to stop using Adsense (http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/107707-Facebook-Says-Stop-Using-Google-Adsense?p=557417&viewfull=1#post557417) in their applications (BING BING?) and the day before it was revealed that Facebook was awarded a patent (http://www.webpronews.com/facebook-social-search-patent-deals-2011-03) called Visual tags for search results generated from social network information. Where's BING in all this? Well I know they're right there in the Facebook internal search results.
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Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land calls it a patent on social search (http://searchengineland.com/facebook-patents-social-search-68363) – an area, where Google is placing more focus these days (with good reason).
Personally and as a user I strongly believe if Google and Facebook were to get along and share each others resources they both can benefit and so could their users. I'm not too interested in two or three giants using up their resources with legal battles, espionage and back-stabbing.
Apparently Microsoft has emerged as one of the most ethical companies (http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-more-ethical-than-apple-google-yahoo-facebook-68661), more so than than Apple, Google, Yahoo. I've never debated that idea but business is business my friends and in this vast space we call the Internet, sometimes business gets personal.
Please share your thoughts!
;)
Who's right? Mr. Zuckerberg? Who's being greedy? Google?
Everyone knows the ensuing battle's been brewing for a few years now, and most of us know a lot has to do with traffic, revenues and page-views. Facebook has millions of members and Google has millions of users - but is it so hard for Google to display a New Zealand type of personality or for Facebook to be as friendly as Iceland?
BING! Maybe BING is sitting silently behind the scenes pushing Facebook in certain directions and into making certain business decisions that affect Google. Yesterday there was news that Facebook asked users to stop using Adsense (http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/107707-Facebook-Says-Stop-Using-Google-Adsense?p=557417&viewfull=1#post557417) in their applications (BING BING?) and the day before it was revealed that Facebook was awarded a patent (http://www.webpronews.com/facebook-social-search-patent-deals-2011-03) called Visual tags for search results generated from social network information. Where's BING in all this? Well I know they're right there in the Facebook internal search results.
Quote:
Greg Sterling at Search Engine Land calls it a patent on social search (http://searchengineland.com/facebook-patents-social-search-68363) – an area, where Google is placing more focus these days (with good reason).
Personally and as a user I strongly believe if Google and Facebook were to get along and share each others resources they both can benefit and so could their users. I'm not too interested in two or three giants using up their resources with legal battles, espionage and back-stabbing.
Apparently Microsoft has emerged as one of the most ethical companies (http://searchengineland.com/microsoft-more-ethical-than-apple-google-yahoo-facebook-68661), more so than than Apple, Google, Yahoo. I've never debated that idea but business is business my friends and in this vast space we call the Internet, sometimes business gets personal.
Please share your thoughts!
;)