Comments on: Facebook Won’t Kill Search http://blog.rmmonline.com/2010/07/facebook-wont-kill-search/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=facebook-wont-kill-search Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:03:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Chris http://blog.rmmonline.com/2010/07/facebook-wont-kill-search/comment-page-1/#comment-2448 Chris Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:31:58 +0000 http://blog.redmccombsmedia.com/?p=332#comment-2448 I wholeheartedly agree. However popular Facebook becomes for search, the types of searches are entirely different. Google is the leader because they have become an excellent source of information on any topic. Car tires, podcasts, software, movie showtimes, Korean food... everything. Facebook is only good for finding people. Even if they were to try to begin providing answers (which is a big if), convincing people to use them for search just isn't going to happen. As you point out, users already have a healthy dose of skepticism for Zuckerberg & co, they'll never seriously compete with Google. Besides, Zuckerberg has bigger fish to fry. Right now he's focused on keeping Facebook. Turns out that <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-contract-mark-zuckerberg-2010-7" rel="nofollow">Paul Ceglia has a legitimate shot</a> of gaining the lion's share of Facebook. I wholeheartedly agree. However popular Facebook becomes for search, the types of searches are entirely different. Google is the leader because they have become an excellent source of information on any topic. Car tires, podcasts, software, movie showtimes, Korean food… everything. Facebook is only good for finding people. Even if they were to try to begin providing answers (which is a big if), convincing people to use them for search just isn’t going to happen. As you point out, users already have a healthy dose of skepticism for Zuckerberg & co, they’ll never seriously compete with Google.

Besides, Zuckerberg has bigger fish to fry. Right now he’s focused on keeping Facebook. Turns out that Paul Ceglia has a legitimate shot of gaining the lion’s share of Facebook.

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