Honestly, I used to think that Google is such a great big company that it was able to make its business big and has bought out many online services. Its biggest competitors then, like Yahoo, have stepped aside because it seems there is no stopping them.
But when their former CEO Eric Schmidt admitted openly that they are losing out on Facebook, that came as a surprise. Google’s hold is mainly on the search engine base, but Facebook’s algorithm links both users and the net and in an instant, they can match the queries to the profiles of their users. This is much more powerful because there are no bots second guessing what the user wants. The users themselves have put this on their profile.
In short, should Facebook pursue the search engine genre, which is not unlikely considering that they have refused offers from Google, they have the capacity to win it over Google. Imagine that.
A couple of years ago, Google was the giant that could not be touched. Now, they are furiously researching on ways how to put Facebook down. Well, let us see. Maybe we should have micrometers installed in our computers and see who is winning this race, no?
Incidentally, I don’t like the many developments that are happening with Facebook recently. First it was the photo viewer and now the cached messages. Well it is good to have cached chat history like what we have in YM, but what I do no like to see are my chat history mixing with the private messages. And when you send PMs, you can no longer put titles or subjects and it is difficult to trace. Their notification also no longer comes individually but are lumped together.
I don’t know who is instigating all these changes, but why change something that works well? That is what I don’t like with Facebook. They keep on changing things, which makes it cumbersome to use.
