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Advertising your site as a "Facebook competitor" (instead of implying it) is a recipe for failure because you want people to look at your site as something completely unique rather than putting it next to Facebook immediately.
Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
isn't a lot of the future of search potentially tied into social?
> "Mr. Gundotra and Mr. Horowitz said that knowing more about individual Google users will improve all Google products, including ads, search, YouTube and maps, because Google will learn what people like and eventually be able to personalize those products." I am obviously ignorant in my belief: privacy != Google obtaining and storing increasingly intimate personal data
Exactly. Who in their right mind would use the social services of a company like this: > "Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices related to Buzz and agreed to 20 years of audits."
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Exactly. Who in their right mind would use the social services of a company like this: > "Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices related to Buzz and agreed to 20 years of audits."
Doesn't that mean they're going to be more trustworthy than anyone else? They've got direct supervision from the federal government.
Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
isn't a lot of the future of search potentially tied into social?
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isn't a lot of the future of search potentially tied into social?
How so? How will knowing what my friends and contacts "like" help Google not respond to my searches with content farm-ed crap?
If your friends "like" a Stack Exchange post but not Experts Exchange, isn't it obvious how this would help them filter out the bad ones?
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Doesn't that mean they're going to be more trustworthy than anyone else? They've got direct supervision from the federal government.
Sure, like a drug dealer is more trustworthy because he's on parole and has to meet with a parole officer once a month.