If Google OWNS Social is it OVER ??
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because Google+ is really taking the web by storm...Facebook doesn't have much longer to live..
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After doing a bit of fucking about it would appear many sources have a point. Google is trying so hard to be a social network, it's starting to move away from a search engine. It's forgetting why people use them (simply to search) and it's arrogance is blinding them in failing to notice, that they're no longer any better than the competition - as a search engine.
If they want to force shit on people and complicate something that used to be far more simple, then they have to realise people don't necessarily relent, but walk or vote with their keyboard. Google's core value (for most) was that it got results and it was simple. Neither of these are quite so true anymore - the user experience is becoming increasingly more annoying.
If Google wants to be a social network, then it'll be, at best, number 2. If it does achieve this I expect it will slowly lose market share as a search engine because people, like me, want to search for shit, not fuck with a social network that has some kind of search capability.
Think about it. Yahoo isn't a search engine, it's a portal, it chased the dream from directory to search and onto a portal. It tried to be everything to all people. It moved away from it's core, tried to expand horizontally and fucked up.
Now I know Google is a different kettle of fish, it's bigger, brainier and to a degree, knows what it's doing. The trouble is though, Google is doing a Yahoo (albeit with a different staff mentality) and chasing the dream of being all things to all people and diluting their core - Search.
Google is trying to become a social network and, I believe, it'll eventually suffer as a failed social network and a shit social search engine. Google+ is a big fuck up and, mark my words, if they continue along this path, will prove pivotal in the coming failure of Google.
If they want to force shit on people and complicate something that used to be far more simple, then they have to realise people don't necessarily relent, but walk or vote with their keyboard. Google's core value (for most) was that it got results and it was simple. Neither of these are quite so true anymore - the user experience is becoming increasingly more annoying.
If Google wants to be a social network, then it'll be, at best, number 2. If it does achieve this I expect it will slowly lose market share as a search engine because people, like me, want to search for shit, not fuck with a social network that has some kind of search capability.
Think about it. Yahoo isn't a search engine, it's a portal, it chased the dream from directory to search and onto a portal. It tried to be everything to all people. It moved away from it's core, tried to expand horizontally and fucked up.
Now I know Google is a different kettle of fish, it's bigger, brainier and to a degree, knows what it's doing. The trouble is though, Google is doing a Yahoo (albeit with a different staff mentality) and chasing the dream of being all things to all people and diluting their core - Search.
Google is trying to become a social network and, I believe, it'll eventually suffer as a failed social network and a shit social search engine. Google+ is a big fuck up and, mark my words, if they continue along this path, will prove pivotal in the coming failure of Google.
In the same way that Facebook will always be the top social network, Google will always be the top search engine.
I'm sorry, I thought about it, and you are correct. Nothing could possibly happen to cause Facebook to lose it's hold on the public's interest, and Google will always be number 1 in search, because you know, the public is anything but fickle.
I just think that Google and Facebook are too big to fail, they have too much financial backing to lose dominance.
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there are just wayy too many verticals out there that people don't facebook/tweet about.
Financial services
Busines to business stuff
embarassing ailments
dating issues
etc.etc.etc
The popular stuff like news, celebrity gossip, entertaining meems, videos etc get buzzed about on social media. And there is a bias for social media rankings for these types of content. But for more factual, serious or embarassing issues nobody is going to admit to all their freinds about it by liking or tweeting it.
How many people are tweeting a wikipedia page? most likely very little. I don't see gogole deranking the wikipedia entries any time soon.
Financial services
Busines to business stuff
embarassing ailments
dating issues
etc.etc.etc
The popular stuff like news, celebrity gossip, entertaining meems, videos etc get buzzed about on social media. And there is a bias for social media rankings for these types of content. But for more factual, serious or embarassing issues nobody is going to admit to all their freinds about it by liking or tweeting it.
How many people are tweeting a wikipedia page? most likely very little. I don't see gogole deranking the wikipedia entries any time soon.
until google decides they want that space too and they're gonna be the next googlepedia ...
What, are you 12? Ever heard of Lehmann Bros...AIG..., et. al?
You think the Gov is gonna step in and "save" Giggle or Farcebook if/when the day comes? Not a fuckin chance.
And THAT'S "financial backing"...
Was gonna say the same thing. "Too big to fail" is one of those phrases only valid in retrospect ie. "I thought they were too big to fail". Roughoutline would know this if he hadn't been in 3rd grade during the financial meltdown a few years ago.
Ken Evoy is the most boring writer in the world, it is not humanly possible to get to whatever point he is making without falling asleep.
Google isn't going to implode like the way lehman brothers did. Look at yahoo, it's fucking shit, but it still manages to carve a sizable chunk of the search market.
Google has a HUGGGGEEE buffer, if they do get destrryoed it will not be over financial reasons. It will be over major fuckups in their search algorithm and destroying their search experience. That won't happen because they are much bigger innovators than any other rivals. Bing, yahooo and any other cowboy search don't come close.
You as an SEO might think they're fucking up the search algortim, but beleive me, the majority of their users who don't do seo and are end users of google search, are completely cool with these changes. For them it just gets better and better.
The only annoying this is probably the DMCA notices in google serps, that is probablyh the only think that will get the young teens to switch from google onto other search engines.. (having said that any other search engine that becomes a major player will have to serve DMCA censorship in serps as well).
