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Peak Google, Apple and Facebook

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Re: Peak Google, Apple and Facebook

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Google is just one of multiple similar search products that prevailed through better execution and marketing.

This is a deep fallacy. The amount of science and technology behind Google's prevalence is absolutely huge. Google prevailed through better search results, not through execution and marketing.

Right and Facebook prevailed through being a technology company and having amazing engineers to make the technology scale. They just turned on their first data center outside of the USA (in Sweden). That datacenter is comprised of technology developed 100% by Facebook and it's 100% open sourced (including hardware). That's the power and innovation of a true technology company.

Myspace was never ever a technology company and neither were many of the competing social networks like Friendster. Facebook just built a better product. Just like Google did.

Re: Peak Google, Apple and Facebook

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Uh huh. Facebook connects PEOPLE by giving them a place to share photos and links. Butchers, restaurants, and NASA are all about PEOPLE but that doesn't mean you're saying anything useful.

I think you missed my point.

I think you didn't make one.

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Fb's user experience has waned on a number of fronts... users of the site feel the change and are losing interest.

Every single point of hard data and evidence says otherwise. Facebook, in the past year, has increased every single metric of success; whether it be the amount of money it makes, the number of advertisers on the site, the number of users on the site, or the level of engagement from all age ranges. Every single metric has increased in all countries. If you're getting your data and information from sensationalist artic…

Average user engagement (for users who were on the site last year) is higher this year? Really?
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