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- tecratour, on 06/23/2009, -4/+88Hahahaha.
oh facebook, you're silly. - GaltShrugged, on 06/22/2009, -15/+73Facebook can't dominate ***** when they're broke. I give it 18 months. In 18 months, Facebook will be bankrupt. Unless they find some sucker to buy it.
- andymci, on 06/23/2009, -0/+51Good job with the copy/paste. But I disagree.
Google collects content from around the web. Facebook collects content from your circle of friends, personal network and connections. While you may rely on the input of this immediate social circle for certain things, the vast amount of content indexed by Google just can't be matched.
Facebook isn't a direct threat to Google. Not by a long shot. - andymci, on 06/23/2009, -1/+49This article portrays Zuckerberg in a much more critical light. Definitely a different point of view from the "talented young entrepreneur" persona. It's funny, though. The amount of personal data collected by Facebook is immense, yet Zuckerberg has the nerve to accuse Google of being "big brother-esque".
To counter his point about lack of control: Google has well-documented methods for keeping content out of the index - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answe ... - merreborn, on 06/23/2009, -2/+42Having worked with the facebook API extensively, I can say one thing for sure.
Facebook, as an engineering organization, is pathetic compared to other organizations of the same size/level of funding. They constantly release features incomplete, undocumented, and unsupported. They may have hundreds of engineers, hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, and one of the busiest sites on the web, but their operation is highly unprofessional.
Long story short, they don't have the talent or organization to take google on, head to head. They have only one thing going for them, and that's marketshare. - jemka, on 06/23/2009, -3/+42Wu-Tang financial. Diversify yo bonds, *****.
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -2/+39It took Amazon more than 6 year to see a profit, and today it doesn't sell only books, it has diversified.
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -1/+31Paid ADVERTISEMENT
- Zippo, on 06/23/2009, -3/+32If I were Facebook (or any other internet company), I'd want to be real good friends with Google... definitely not enemies.
- funkytaco, on 06/23/2009, -3/+32Zuckerberg has screwed up. Google employees will now code this bug-free on a lunch break and tie it into their social network.
- skotski, on 06/23/2009, -0/+26Or until they start selling all the user data they have aquired...
"What kind of food are you?...take the test" "What body part are you?...take the test" believe it or not, that ***** is valuable in triangulating exactly what kind of product you will buy. - UK31337, on 06/23/2009, -3/+29Zuckerberg is an idiot, and idiotic people produce idiotic websites. The man is an arrogant, paranoid control freak and apparently even his own staff hate him and only work for him because they've got to pay their bills and feed themselves.
Seriously, the constant layout changes, Beacon, the apps, and Facebook now being a Twitter ripoff is all down to him. He wants it, his team do it regardless of business merit or how it will affect the userbase. If he wants to turn Facebook into a subscription porn site with $1m buy-in poker tables on the FAQ page then that's what his team will do, and five days later after backlash on every tech news site in the world and a zillion FB users rising up in revolt, it'll be "Sorry folks, it appears we got it wrong, please accept our apologies and we've changed everything now, kthxbye P.S. if that pissed you off just wait until we tip the layout on its head *again* in three weeks time har har har har har".
I closed my Facebook account because it went downhill at Mach 10 with failing brakes. I started in September 2005 when it was a small group of University students using it and it was great; message your friends and share photos, brilliant right? Then came the high school kids, then your boss, then your grandma, then the Zombie Apocalypse apps, then constant layout changes breaking every HCI convention in the book, then a copypasta Twitter. What a joke.
Facebook will end up like MySpace - everyone has it but who a) freely admits it and b) even uses it anymore? Good riddance when it does happen.
Google are on top for a reason. Zuckerberg knows it, knows he can't compete, so is talking tough to try and rattle them. How sad. As someone else said, I hope Google now steal his idea and implement it better just to put the wind up him.
It's not as if Facebook is even profitable besides epic amounts of data mining and advertising space. They don't sell anything except your personal information, ya know.
(GRR BOUNCY COMMENT BOX) - shrewduser, on 06/23/2009, -2/+25based on facebook movie reviews, this would be truly horrifying. (hancock got 4 stars!!??!)
give me cold mathematics! - Qumahlin, on 06/23/2009, -1/+23If I did have a facebook I sure as hell wouldn't want to connect it to my Digg account otherwise my friends can see what an ***** I am on the internet.
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -0/+20Facebook wants to outthink Google? Yeah, good luck with that.
- cheddaro, on 06/23/2009, -2/+21"In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this "social graph" to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire—rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search."
That really makes it clear that the guy who invented Facebook is more of a lucky moron than visionary genius.
Reminds me of Shawn Fanning. - illinest, on 06/23/2009, -2/+21facebook is starting to bug me.
- kernel16, on 06/23/2009, -1/+14Well if it's a war, and I have to pick a side, then that's easy I'm all for Google.
- Sharik, on 06/23/2009, -1/+14I don't think FB will go bankrupt anytime soon, just look at myspace - it's a pile of ***** and is still afloat.
- aufte, on 06/23/2009, -1/+14Everyone had a plan to dominate the net, Myspace did, Yahoo did, AOL did, it'll never happen. Get over Facebook, it's already starting to fall apart now that it's filled with kids.
- LokiStix, on 06/23/2009, -3/+15Haha, when pigs fly.
- EddiePotato, on 06/23/2009, -1/+13Someone needs to give them a cape and a plastic sword and tell them to go play outside.
- induren, on 06/23/2009, -4/+16Facebook's model is for people to follow the masses of the stupids, more specifically, the stupids around them.
They're pushing the exact opposite of what Google et al has pushed in recent years: cold hard analysis. Facebook gives you rumor mongering, oh yey.
And if I am a company wanting to push a product, I know all I have to do is exploit Facebook's model. Easy to do, since the old way has been exploited by marketing companies for years. More foolishness. - kernel16, on 06/23/2009, -2/+14Amazon had a business plan for making profit, hey they sold books... What does FB sell? Amazon took awhile to catch on, FB has media attention and a ***** ton of members, so how about we see some profit. The fact is you can't compare those two sites.
- MtheoryX, on 06/23/2009, -0/+11That's only the case in the U.S. Outside the U.S. Orkut has extremely respectable market share.
- dalittle, on 06/23/2009, -1/+12Like Yelp? Guess it has already been tried and long before Yelp too. Social networking does not always provide a good solution. At best you get the mediocre one that everyone agrees does nothing extraordinary, but nothing bad either.
- Hraes, on 06/23/2009, -0/+11God, I hope so. Facebook could really use a takeover by Google, and a reset.
- pegothejerk, on 06/23/2009, -2/+12Take my quiz to see if you're the type of person to believe this article is predicting the future accurately or simply pushing a marketing ploy!
- noctu, on 06/23/2009, -4/+14no one has told facebook they are a fad yet?
- Deleted4disnFed, on 06/23/2009, -1/+10LOL Facebook. I don't know about you but I def am not going to my friends for information about the best price on butt plugs and how to navigate a binary tree in Java.
- mohsenxp, on 06/23/2009, -1/+10This comment is both sarcastic and sincere:
Good luck. - Qumahlin, on 06/23/2009, -0/+9"it's a pile of ***** and is still afloat."
If by afloat you mean showing signs of financial trouble and that the primary creators have been excused from any control of the company then yeah... - omnipresenceweb, on 06/23/2009, -3/+12Facebook does not make money... End of story, really. Google didn't make any money at first either, but the difference is, Google provides a service based on trust and solid engineering, Facebook is just the most recent Friendster.
And Zuckerberg might as well write douche bag on his forehead, saving himself the trouble of expressing it in all the other ways... - _jinx_, on 06/23/2009, -0/+9I respectfully disagree,
in addition to andy, google and other various engines crawl content.. growing exponentially every second. currently I do not see facebook growing at nearly the rate from user content more affiliated with the self, more then service.
facebook has a better shot at taking a market by pushing there applications to be used in conjunction with other sites so that the opening (login entry) to a wide network of various sites and applications STARTS at facebook instead of myspace and other various social networks.
facebook should watch it, i wouldn't get on the bad side of google, there services will be needed to keep facebook in any order to maintain a company.
my 2 cents - Wheelingdude86, on 06/23/2009, -0/+8It is just me or when you are trying to find the best of something. For example, the best bang for the buck flat panel TV . I generally search (google) for a message board or forum on the subject, say avsforums in this case, then go to the TV subforum and spend a few hours reading posts and stickies, hence knowing what to buy, what to avoid, what brand is good, warranty's, ect then go to newegg and read their reader reviews or cnet. It's always worked for me. Find the diehard enthusiast of the subject, read up, and go to bargain sites for the purchase.
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -1/+9Facebook has a limited life.
- mohsenxp, on 06/23/2009, -2/+10I work for IBM and my entire department is on facebook.
Stop thinking facebook is synonymous with MySpace. Infact just stop highlighting your ignorance already. - merreborn, on 06/23/2009, -0/+8I have bad news for you:
Digg is in the same category as facebook and twitter: web 2.0 social web apps.
Except digg is less successful. - foolishwolf, on 06/23/2009, -0/+7Yep, a market research goldmine.
- merreborn, on 06/23/2009, -0/+6Needy people... or, you know, people who have friends who they don't see regularly, but still want to keep in touch with.
- Stoyanov, on 06/23/2009, -0/+6Dugg for common sense.
- gamepr0, on 06/23/2009, -3/+9oh come on, bing sucks and facebook is *****, or wait no... bing is ***** and facebook sucks... i'm not sure which one but one of those statements is true.
- DonAlfred, on 06/23/2009, -2/+8Well, Zuckerberg is an idiot.
If anything, Google would just buy that *****-pile. But they never will. And Facebook will never be anything else than a waste of internet.
Stupid Facebook. - DonAlfred, on 06/23/2009, -0/+6So Facebook sees Google as their biggest competitors?
Baaaaahahahaha. I bet the people a Google are slapping their legs silly. The engineers at Facebook is just unhappy about Google, because Google wouldn't hire them. - AndySavage, on 06/23/2009, -1/+7Google as an organization has a personality to admire, and is loved by the vast majority of the informed Internets.
On the contrary, every piece of news that we hear involving Facebook leadership seems to cause a backlash. Personally they have always seemed to me and many others to be fairly *****-- Facebook will never find themselves in any position to look down on Google without the people on their side. - awesinine, on 07/15/2009, -2/+8I have a feeling that if Google Wave is all that it claims to be, then facebook and twitter are going to go *poof,*
...or at the very least will only be brand-recognizable names that are little more than tags. - EddiePotato, on 06/23/2009, -0/+6The algorithms of his graph going to be coded with emotions rather than mathematics. It's a whole new school of programming; you just feel things at the computer and it generates non-mathematical code.
- heavymetalpanda, on 06/23/2009, -1/+7Has anyone actually bothered to click the connect to facebook button that's now on digg?
- inactive, on 06/23/2009, -3/+8Facebook is Skynet. It must be destroyed.
- EddiePotato, on 06/23/2009, -0/+5Misanthropes consider people with any friends "needy".
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