The Future Of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook)
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www.techcrunch.com — If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know. If you are researching a trip to Florence, ...
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Should Google Buy Facebook? Searching Users’ Experiences
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron's Online — ... ) buy privately held social networking Web site Facebook? It’s been a subject of endless speculation, and a piece yesterday on TechCrunch opines that a marriage of the search-engine giant with Facebook would allow users to search the news feed of their Facebook pages, where friends and loved ones report all the various things they’re doing, thus making possible the ability to search one’s own experience. The author gives examples of how one could see friends who had worked at a company about which one was researching, or see which friends have taken trips to ...

If Google Buys Facebook, I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle
Google Watch — ... TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld rekindled discussion of an interesting but dubious idea Dec. 28: a combination of search king Google and social network king Facebook. ...

Microsoft’s “Investment” in Facebook Was a Down Payment
All Facebook — ... Yesterday Erick Schonfeld posted that Google should buy Facebook. He admitted that it was something that probably won’t happen but asserted that Facebook and Google should partner together to integrate people search and general web search. Yes, Google has the upper hand when it comes to search but Microsoft is investing heavily in search and I would argue that their “investment” in Facebook at the ridiculous $15 billion valuation, was not an investment but merely a down payment. ...

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