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Google is the New Microsoft and Facebook is the New Google

blogs.guardian.co.uk — Facebook is hiring and Google is "the best place to get good engineers and others". "Facebook has already claimed Youtube CFO Gideon Yu, eCommerce Product lead Benjamin Ling and GDrive developer Justin Rosenstein."

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  • nousplacidus, on 11/23/2007, -3/+13Big companies are always targets in this regard. It makes sense that a good company is made of good employees and thus the cherrypicking begins.
  • JordanTW90, on 11/23/2007, -5/+92Why did this make frontpage?
    • ekin09, on 11/23/2007, -2/+17 Dude, digg stories with out actually reading the ***** article, it is ***** cool .. "I LOVEZ TEH TiTLE, DUGG!"
    • tdelet, on 11/23/2007, -1/+16Because idiotic stories are the new interesting stories.
    • Aharoni, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Because when the guy who played the dad on Alf writes something - you get it to the front to page!
      Its like articles written by Mr. T.
    • AdHaR, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Because it's got these *instant-digg-keywords* in them...and one even twice...
    • thefinger, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1"Why did this make frontpage?" ...... that should be Digg's tagline
  • Disinterested, on 11/23/2007, -14/+0dugg for the awesome title
  • Devotia, on 11/23/2007, -3/+13What's Microsoft? The new Ma Bell?
    • chris9902, on 11/23/2007, -2/+1Microsoft is what those companies will be in 5 years.
    • oojamaflip2006, on 11/23/2007, -1/+6Microsoft is the new IBM
    • thebrawl, on 11/23/2007, -0/+5Microsoft isn't the new anything. It's the old everything
  • amawg9, on 11/23/2007, -2/+12Purple is the new pink.
  • jclassracer, on 11/23/2007, -4/+32... and floogle is the new bloogle.
  • ToadLeg, on 11/23/2007, -2/+17...Comcast is the new AOL...?
  • paulsmith288, on 11/23/2007, -3/+11google hasn't done embrace , extend , extinguish like ms
  • KraftDinner101, on 11/23/2007, -2/+51This is the most idiotic piece of tripe I've ever read.
    • casual7y, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2dugg for the use of the word "tripe"
  • fLUx1337, on 11/23/2007, -4/+38Wow, wtf......this crap reached the frontpage?

    Google = Microsoft?!
    Facebook = Google?!

    Wow...
    • thundros, on 11/23/2007, -2/+4And if we take that logic to the extreme and taking those previous "equations":

      Microsoft = Google = Facebook, therefore Facebook = Microsoft!

      Facebook is the new Microsoft! Now someone just needs to make another article! :-)
    • lul101, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1It's just like the famous 0.999999....=1. That was one of the lamest *****, article?, I have read on Digg.
  • uberchaoslord, on 11/23/2007, -12/+2coming soon to digg: water wet, sky blue, fatty foods make you fat....
    • grindmygears, on 11/23/2007, -0/+0Brilliant. +5 Funny. Oops, wait, this is Digg... But seriously, soon someone will realize that a Mac is a PC...
  • lackingdiggnity, on 11/23/2007, -2/+12In a related development, talented young people all over the world are increasingly seeking engaging work environments with financial upside. We will continue to monitor this phenomenon and report further head-slappingly obvious items as they arise.
    • aazn, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2Well until Facebook comes out with "Facebook Docs & Spreadsheets" and "Facebook Mail (FMail)" I'd rather work at Google.

      Besides, have you seen Google's work environment?
  • Kingmichael, on 11/23/2007, -2/+14I don't know much about Facebook, so will someone explain to me how Facebook became the "new Google" when it's a social networking site and not a search engine? Also, why do these stories keep appearing on Digg? Diggers hate MySpace, and Facebook is pretty much the same thing but with better site design.
  • goonsquad3, on 11/23/2007, -2/+37Lame trend stories are the new Ron Paul.
  • duckyinc, on 11/23/2007, -2/+1So microsoft will buy google?
  • Ler224, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3The worlds best engineers should spend more time working on interfaces for social blogging.
  • xqb4dpx, on 11/23/2007, -7/+3close. AAPL will soon enough ***** up OS X so badly that itll become the new Vista. MSFT will create the new Mobile, a new device that is thought controlled, then create their new Operating System hit, Windows Tabby Cat. MSFT will rise in marketshare with their easy to use computers, running on their new DOS 2012 kernel ... eventually creating a new Vista, and then AAPL will release the iPhone 2020 ... etc .. oh yeah and Linux will keep on trucking
    • Platypus3333, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Negativity is only warranted when directed at a Microsoft product. When will you learn?!
  • jerrycan, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5So, is microsoft the new facebook then?
  • crazybugger, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3Law of Karma!
  • MatTipton, on 11/23/2007, -3/+2new is the new new
  • Kailash.Nadh, on 11/23/2007, -0/+18I "deactivated" my Facebook account this afternoon. Got sick of the hype. Maybe its just me, I tried to make myself like facebook, but failed miserably.
  • calon9, on 11/23/2007, -1/+11Sugar is the new oil.
  • michellepeet, on 11/23/2007, -1/+9Faceback doesn't make a fraction of the revenue that Google makes... When will people learn? And Google is of higher value than IBM, even though IBM has 4 times the net profit. Facebook is just a fad, it's NOT revolutionary, it does almost nothing new, it's just less annoying than MySpace.
  • Trollmaster, on 11/23/2007, -1/+7since when was microsoft a search engine?? and google a software company?? and facebook a search engine?? etc etc.... great comparison whoever wrote the stupid article
    • aazn, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1well parts 1 and 2 of your question are invalid.

      Microsoft has Live Search (but no one uses it) and Google has their web applications (they rape)
    • thefinger, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1What is this "Live Search" you speak of? Is it like a Google?
  • ahpro, on 11/23/2007, -1/+4I don't have facebook. Am i missing out?
    • stormgren, on 11/23/2007, -1/+12No.
    • Gimpishi, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1It depends. Are your friends on Facebook? Do you want a social networking profile where you don't know anyone? I would say in the first case get one, otherwise, it's not really a place to 'meet people'. So there is your answer; it is a great social networking site, but doesn't really excel meeting new people because of networks/ other barriers.

      Side note:
      Comparing apples to oranges with Google vs Facebook
      Facebook does not serve as search engine, nor online email, as google offers. However both Google and Facebook are both entirely ad-revenue driven. Unfortunately for facebook, they are known as a trendy social networking site. Google is known as a more ubiquitous search engine, webmail, services provider. So neither can really totally take the place of the other.
  • Picer, on 11/23/2007, -1/+1How can facebook be compared to google, and how can google can be compared to Microsoft
    Microsoft- has lost its aim, Advertising is the business one day then OS...
    Facebook- Does not help me discover cool websites rather "cool new people" how ever it is nowhere near as bad as myspace, all the media attention seems to be by editors who have actually found out what a "face book" is.

    However the of google workers going to facebook sis what happened with Microsoft and google and they were to completely different companies, and they still are just that microsoft is being mentored bygoogle these days..

    • aazn, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Google can be compared to Microsoft in that they produce software and have a search engine, but that's where the comparison ends because everyone knows of Microsoft's bloat and *****-cake Live Search, and of Google's 1337 Web Applications and Google Search.
  • deformation, on 11/23/2007, -2/+3Never!!!
    And comparing Facebook to Google is plain stupid, so when we want to search for some info, will we facebook it??
    Everyone loves Google.
  • deformation, on 11/23/2007, -6/+2Never!!!
    And comparing Facebook to Google is plain stupid, so when we want to search for some info, will we facebook it??

    Everyone loves Google.
  • hpymondays, on 11/23/2007, -0/+0The Silicon Valley Hype Machine never stops working. All social networking sites are a complete waste of time and it's just a matter of time until people wake up and find out that it's yet another marketing machine run by big corporations. It already happened with myspace, facebook is next. But until then, Silicon Valley will continue heralding the next coming of Microsoft, Google or whatever.
  • garg, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Facebook needs to diversify then because right now they are just the new myspace.
  • aroundtown, on 11/23/2007, -2/+22and Digg is the new CNN, covering the same topics over and over.
  • Joe_rigby, on 11/23/2007, -1/+5I disagree.
  • mlvassallo, on 11/23/2007, -0/+7This has the be the stupidest article I've seen on Digg. And yes, I've read all the Ron Paul articles.
  • dafragsta, on 11/23/2007, -0/+7Opinions are the new facts.

    Facts are the new...
    • aazn, on 11/23/2007, -3/+1"If you support the facts you want more 9/11" - Dick Cheney
  • FluffyWolf, on 11/23/2007, -1/+3Very buried.
  • Super6, on 11/23/2007, -1/+2No, google is the new awesome. Facebook is the new myspace. As facebook rises to prominence it will attract as much bad press as MpSpace. Facebook also screwed up when they opened their API, making them look that much more like MySpace.
  • Stonekeeper, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1I dont see google tying my hands behind my back with regards to my own data then making me pay for the privilege.
  • koziktime66, on 11/23/2007, -0/+12I never, ever post comments on digg or reddit -- but this one just struck a nerve.

    What the heck is it with these facebook stories? Seriously: Was the s**t spewed fourth by Facebooks publicity mongers to hype up their value or what, because I seriously do not see what the big fuss is about Facebook! So Microsoft invested money into them, and they are supposedly worth 15 billion on paper -- So what? In the meantime, how are they going to live up to that value besides when their users -- oblivious to all of this whole argument and their supposed value -- are shoving spam in my facebook inbox, stupid invites, vampire applications and dozens of other useless things, thereby making the load time of a page that of a typical myspace page (okay, so it´s still not as bad as myspace ... but) ... Please -- we´ve seen what the masses have done with myspace, 5 minute load times for a page on T1, crashing of browsers, design standards thrown out the window, making web pages unbearable to go to, and then, once the masses got down with that, they stampeded over to facebook soon as it opened up to them, and consequently, what was once a neat, bare minimum social networking site is now a bastion of spammers and useless applications that get on people´s nerves.

    I may be in the minority here, but can someone please, please explain to me how Facebook is going to overtake google ... please! I´ve read article after article, and nothing seems to be very conclusive, just HYPE -- about what it COULD do for search and all the stuff. Moreover, what is the deal with all these companies thinking that social networking is going to take over all of our lives? Maybe, but really?

    Sadly, playing devil´s advocate to my own argument, i have friends who refuse to email me at my email address; instead, they msg me on myspace or facebook and THINK that is email, even after I TELL THEM to email me, not facebook me. So, maybe there is something to it, but c´mon, let´ś see some hard date -- NOT HYPE from a publicity machine.
    • hpymondays, on 11/24/2007, -0/+2you are absolutely right. It's just a hype machine that is powered by big venture capital money. It has no real added value except for spammers, scam artists and sex offenders.
  • airj1012, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Maybe based on hiring. If not, Facebook is the new Microsoft, and well, Google is just Google.
  • heyrevolver, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1I completely disagree. This is the type of stuff that makes it to the TechCrunch front page.
  • tehstyles, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1ANY facebook employee can look at anyone's private account and pictures, what pages they look at, messages, and activity. Thats not cool.
  • ZackWolk, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2BURY - blanket title statements that don't make a relevant reference to the content should be erradicated
  • JenadaeXX, on 11/23/2007, -0/+5Facebook is NOT and will never be the "new google", take a step outside the US, facebook quickly goes MIA.
  • dn11, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2give me a break. Facebook is a fad - it's the new Mysapce, that is all
  • hazello, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2I ***** hate Facebook.
  • polvero, on 11/23/2007, -0/+5I think it's cute when people try to compare "Company X" to Google. Nobody buys it. Just let the things be what they are. Google is Google and they are the best at what they do. Facebook is good too - one of the more decent Social Networking sites that has been around for a long time and I check a few times a week. I recommend Facebook to friends. MySpace I never joined because - it wasn't for me, but there was never denying the rest of my teenage cousins getting a MySpace page.
    Nevertheless, this is Digg. You take the bad with the good.
    • thefinger, on 11/24/2007, -0/+1Sounds reasonable. As such, your comment is not fit for Digg. Sorry.
  • demonstro, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Googlebook
    Microface
  • demonstro, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Nice to see the Guardian is still living up to it's reputation in the spelling department.
    What a crap article too!
  • xhizzle, on 11/23/2007, -0/+1Claiming that my favourite search engine is anything remotely like Microsoft is insulting.
  • shavenlunatic, on 11/23/2007, -0/+2what? I've not even read the article yet but going by the title I'm going to pre-empt that it's written by a ***** idiot. I'll come and digg myself down if proven wrong.
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