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Would we expect the top search on Facebook to be “Facebook”?

Good observation — and / but different browsers behave differently (e.g. using Mozilla Firefox it’s fairly easy to configure the browser behavior).

Google’s Chrome “browser” is the most insidious — it not only sends the full search term (e.g. “facebook”) to Google, but in fact it is actually a KEYSTROKE LOGGER (which is why I usually refer to it as “spyware” rather than “browser”). In any case, since most of the people who use Chrome are GooTards anyways, it really doesn’t matter much.

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Google will evolve to meet every form of data collection it can adapt to — I don’t sense that they need to become the data collectors (although clearly they do that in some cases).

Facebook hasn’t declared that it is trying to organize all our information for us; Google has.

There is no conflict in their strategies so far, but Google does face the challenge of avoiding obsalescence (which, as Yahoo! found out, is easy to succumb to).

Civilizations are actually products of net social energy, the culmination and ever evolving product of countless interacting decisions by individuals and groups operating within an also changing environment.

(btw, its more helpful to social theory to understand money as an inherently flawed but necessary allocation mechanism for social energy than as a store of value.)

Facebook via a combination of innovation, luck and momentum has achieved a tipover point in a landscape which offers advantages to the User by concentration (greater concentration increases the chances his/her friends will be there too).

Search doesn’t possess the same tendency to that extent.

However, facebook is apparently oblivious to some significant parts of this evolving social landscape…

Whereby offering certain other capabilities to the User may offer similar advantages catalyzing this flocking behavior.

On Social Energy, Enterprise & Expanding the Technology of Money

The Individually-controlled/Commons-dedicated Account

What’s their phone number?

Or is it something like – instead of typing it on a small url box on the top of a browser, users finds it easy to type it on the much larger pretty much on their face – a search box?

Look forward for your views.

I often just type “facebook” in my address bar. I’m assuming (though I could be totally wrong) that it is sent to Google which returns the result of the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search.

I rarely just type “google” to do the same because I can search directly from the address (or search) bar.

So to me, unless there is more information to explain the numbers, they don’t really mean much. Except that 1.7% of users on each search engine use Facebook.

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