Comments on: Google Rolling Out Social Search: But Does It Leverage Facebook?

By: Politics

Politics — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:57:10 +0000

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By: remmy

remmy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:37:00 +0000

John,

I've been in the search space for some time now. I do think there's much more to do with respect to structured data, but social connections is fantasyland. If you really think it through it doesn't make a lot of sense beyond the buzz phrases. If you want to know what your connections think --- then ask them directly.

Stop wishing for a miracle John. It isn't going to happen.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:04:39 +0000

"...we do not currently use your Facebook connections as part of Google Social Search"

i don't think Google realizes they've already lost the war for social. if they knew what was going on, they'd be leveraging the hell out of their own primary social networks -- that is, Gmail & YouTube. (sorry, ok Orkut if you're in Brazil or India maybe).

Facebook -- and more specifically Facebook Connect -- is an unstoppable juggernaut. if/when they get Payment integrated into Connect -- and they will -- they will be able to provide unparallelled benefits to consumers, advertisers & merchants all over the web.

Google still dominates Search & Video, and is close to dominating Email & Docs. they also have a big bet on Mobile that looks pretty good so far. but they are not doing well at all with Social, and they appear to be falling further behind Facebook.

Google should simply pay whatever it takes to get Twitter now. That is their best bet to remain competitive.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:03:08 +0000

"...we do not currently use your Facebook connections as part of Google Social Search"

Google should simply pay whatever it takes to get Twitter now. That is their best bet to remain competitive.

By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann

Norbert Mayer-Wittmann — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:36:58 +0000

My hunch is that many users trust Google about as much as a telemarketer or a vacuum cleaner salesperson -- and FaceBook, although they're willing to open up more, are not willing to sell our contact lists to Google.

Have you done a similar experiment with twitter? Are they any more willing to disclose such personal details, such that Google can data-mine them?

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:08:52 +0000

We’re betting on social search and its ability to tap your social graph at Stumpedia.com. Assuming people will go out of their way to complete a google profile is very unlikely to result in mass market adoption and probably not the best approach.