Comments on: Is Facebook trying to compete with Google?

By: Facebook Search fills with Bing Results | Bright Web Insights

Facebook Search fills with Bing Results | Bright Web Insights — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:13:41 +0000

[...] reflecting on some developments with facebook search. Earlier this month I wrote a post about how Facebook is shifting to compete against Google in order to better monetize their visitors. Facebook’s obvious layout changes [...]

By: Kyle Waring

Kyle Waring — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43:08 +0000

Conor-

You bring up some great points, especially about searching facebook and how your query relates to friends within your network. This type of searching is not only more specific, but I think more profitable in the long term. At the end of the day, Facebook still needs to address how they are going to generate more revenue. With these plans of expanding search they will surely be able to better monetize users.

Also- more page views doesn’t necessarily equate into more revenue…

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:05:45 +0000

Honestly I think it’s much simpler than that. Facebooks gotten so huge–not just in user base but also in content offering–that good usability just requires a more prominent search bar.

Even in the old layout, I found myself heading to search all the time, the new layout is even more complex.

There is some truth to what you’re saying though. They tried to monetize with “beacon,” I wouldn’t be too surprised to see them make moves on peer to peer recommendations again.

The difference that will always be between facebook and google. If I search spatula on facebook, I’d be trying to find out how spatula’s relate to my social network–what spatula Kyle uses for cookin mighty eggs. If i search google, it’s cause i want to find out what the world thinks of spatulas.

Facebook just beat google for pageviews in US last month btw. Long way before they get more money though.

By: G. Profi

G. Profi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:14:33 +0000

It is really a nice article .According to me Facebook is really a growing web site but it cannot compete with Google ever.

By: Luke Wendling

Luke Wendling — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:17:57 +0000

I know that I have caught myself typing into this box when I intend to update my status. Facebook needs to do something to monetize it’s traffic. That link to view more ads below the ad block is hilarious though, I can’t imagine a visitor who would want to view more ads…