Why Google is Scared

Facebook is the source of increasingly valuable information.

Feb 15, 2011 1-min read

I've written before about the importance of social search. Remember that Google cannot index content behind Facebook's virtual wall: Facebook is smart enough to know that there's tremendous value to which it alone has access.

So, upon logging into Facebook this morning, I couldn't help but notice two queries that, five years ago, would have been Google searches:

Note how Google in effect updated Facebook in the second and third status updates.

Simon Says

Looks like Google is big enough that it is now enabling the competition--at least in part.

If you don't think that this is keeping Google senior folks up at night, think again.

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