Google's introducing social elements drawn from Google+ to its search results. Great stuff. Really. One problem: people use Facebook, not Google+. And this seems to be the wrong way around anyhow: adding social to search. In my opinion, it should be adding search to social. look at it from a real world perspective: if I want to find a good plumber, I don't start by picking up the Yellow Pages. I start by asking a friend who had a plumbing problem a few months ago.
Google will probably not pursue a partnership with Facebook, since it has already psychologically taken the path of Google+. And we all know what happens to ego babies (which are even worse than love babies).
So, the next question would be: what will be the search engine of tomorrow? Bing perhaps. With its close ties to Facebook, Microsoft might be able to pull this one off. Or Facebook, saying: Screw everybody! We van do this by ourselves. Especially after getting our hands on a couple of billion dollars with our 2012 IPO.
Google will probably not pursue a partnership with Facebook, since it has already psychologically taken the path of Google+. And we all know what happens to ego babies (which are even worse than love babies).
So, the next question would be: what will be the search engine of tomorrow? Bing perhaps. With its close ties to Facebook, Microsoft might be able to pull this one off. Or Facebook, saying: Screw everybody! We van do this by ourselves. Especially after getting our hands on a couple of billion dollars with our 2012 IPO.
