Exciting News for Anyone with a Google Penalised Website!

[Marcoose]

.... facebook are working on a search engine!

http://www.webpronews.com/mark-zuckerberg-says-facebook-will-do-search-2012-09#comments

 

[vizzo]

Not holding my breath!
Not sure it will ever happen. Not sure anyone has the resources both financial and otherwise to create a viable full scale competitor

 

[JMOT]

It is exciting. However whats more exciting is I hear there is a beta version of a link disavow feature for GWMT being tested at the moment so shortly enough we may be able to clean up nailed sites.

 

[Marcoose]

It is exciting. However whats more exciting is I hear there is a beta version of a link disavow feature for GWMT being tested at the moment so shortly enough we may be able to clean up nailed sites.

Definitely. Perhaps it will coincide with Penguin 2.0. When I look at one of my link profiles I can't believe my stupidity. Looks like I'll be disavowing 90% of my links cos that's how many of the same keyword I anchored!

 

[Marcoose]

Not holding my breath!
Not sure it will ever happen. Not sure anyone has the resources both financial and otherwise to create a viable full scale competitor

If anyone has the infrastructure and cash to do it, Facebook do. Besides, I'm not sure how fussy the average Facebook user would be about the quality of serps!

 

[Marcoose]

Also, facebook already have the traction - meaning, for their business model to work, they need to keep facebook users on the facebook platform.

By enticing/allowing their users to search from within facebook itself, Facebook will end up with such immense user demographic details prime for advertising space, that it is in fact Google that will struggle to compete (long term).

The next step would be a facebook browser. This would also lead to a mobile browser - allowing facebook to monetise their platform quite easily and readily. You would never need to leave facebook.... scarey.

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/92558-how-browsers-make-money-or-why-google-needs-firefox

Agree with all that. Great foresight.

Maybe buying shares in Facebook isn't such a bad idea...

Just been thinking the same thing...

 

[JMOT]

http://www.webpronews.com/bing-now-powers-25-6-of-searches-2012-08

Thats exciting too $ for $. The trend just needs to follow in the EU.

The other factor at play is whilst Googles unique numbers put it at the top of the pile who has the stickiest website?? Its Facebook... the engagement time and exposure potential for Facebook is much higher than Google.

Exciting developments with Facebooks ad services are also afoot

There are such good FB page management tools out there now that you dont actually need a website. You need a FB page... you can do ecommerce, you can do whatever the hell you want on FB already...

However whilst FB is dropping its pants now and letting you do almost whatever you want that pays it cash it WILL go the way Google has gone... its inevitable. In 5/6 years+ we'll have threads about the FB update nailing your page... banned FB pages complaints... T's & C's and FBQC (quality scoring) for your ads. Enjoy the new ecosystems and falling Google reliance and make sure you are "out" before the next dominant force makes your life hell

 

[dashu1]

Facebook are a joke.

They should stick to social media innovation and try to work out how to make some money to pay back the poor suckers who bought into their IPO.

 

[Marcoose]

Facebook are a joke.

They should stick to social media innovation and try to work out how to make some money to pay back the poor suckers who bought into their IPO.

Facebook do social very well while Google do search very well. This hasn't stopped Google getting on board with social media though and attracting (supposedly) 100 million daily users.

OK, Google has a business model that works and justifies its market cap but the company is also six years older.

Facebook is (still) a great, (still) highly valuable company with the brand, all the resources, and user-base to make a good go of search. There will be massive synergy benefits to running both side by side and as previously mentioned - a browser would really help tie everything together.

For me, it's a no brainer.

 

[dashu1]

Facebook have lost the plot, their US users are dropping like flies.

They aren't earning the money they need to be, and I see their attempt to "make a search engine" as a direct attempt to attack Google in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Google looking at social.

They will not win. Google are infinitely more advanced commercially and technically.

The sad thing is that Facebook, instead of trying to shoehorn annoying and intrusive advertising models like the "sponsored story" into their business model have the opportunity to overtake Google in various markets, increase their earnings in multiples, and yet they're so blinkered and bogged down in nonsense that they can't see the obvious.

Sponsored Stories might be bringing in $1 million per day, but if they took the obvious approach they could be bringing in a minimum of 10 times that amount per day, and the platform they could build would blow their current revenue model out of the water.

But:

1) They're too pig headed
2) They believe they know better than everyone else
3) They are impossible to contact to suggest ideas (even small companies have suggestion boxes - A social media site not having one is laughable - they want everyone to be social except themselves, and the very people who make them tick they aren't prepared to listen to - not veyr social after all)
4) They are losing focus
5) They are losing direction
6) Their focus is being directed by what they think their shareholders want to hear
7) ad infinitum

Facebook run a very real risk of "doing a friends reunited" which as you all know disappeared without a trace in very short order once they'd lost the impetus.