Is Facebook the Next Google?

They may in the ads as it has many many and yes many users online 24/7 all over the world, personally when i want to put my ad I'll put it in Facebook not google.

 

But Facebook is popular only in the US while Google has strong presence in every country in the world.

 

@ decepti0n , I have never said Facebook will displace Google, All i am saying is when I see 2 years ahead, it will be Facebook which will be more lively than Google, There are so many reasons for that.

I am no fanboy or Facebook nor Google, but when i use Facebook, i know it has potential. The total users who are using social networking site is 190 million people, there are another 800 million people who are not part of social networking, that means there is growth out there for social networking. Most of the 800 million people will join the top sites or niche social networking sites, but there is no denying of they not being part of social web.

 

If Google is sharing ad revenue for 100 million people. Facebook is creating millionaires overnight by opening up their platform, social app Top Friends is valued at 32 million dollars. This is a totally different industry where only smart and innovative ideas survive.

 

As said - Facebook is for USA mostly, Orkut for example for Indians and other east nations which will predominate in internet (or already now in some categories(I dont mean business etc.)).

 

@azharcs, to me Facebook would probably only appear more lively. Google doesn't publish stats on their users, most people can only go by Compete etc.

 

Look facebook is never going to be bigger then google!

Google will probally buy it soon anyway.

 

Though Google can afford Facebook, I don't think Mark Zuckerberg would sell it away. Facebook's plan is for long term output.

 

They're a threat to Google in terms of what? Be more specific. Google's operations are more diverse.

 

Simple answer, no

Google are now established and are the 1st choice search engine for most people
now-a-days

Especially now with there webmaster tools, adsence and adwords, cant see them falling, only gaining.

 

Where you prefer a advert?

On the googles homepage?

Or on facebooks homepage?

That would all depend on what type of product, service your site has to offer.

 

Anyway,,
someone else said that I want to say again in next manner.

facebook threats google
is same like
masterspoint threats DP lol

It's a lot different guys.

Try to understand

 

>> Google is much more.
Hmmm. So is Facebook. For millions of people FB is THE internet. When they go anywhere else it is from facebook, and then they return. See my post here: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=669069

 

Don't believe the media for everything. Research it yourself.

Look at things for yourself.

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Google: Internet search engine.
FaceBook: Social networking portal.

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Let's take time to think here...

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Now that you have taken the time to you, you'll realize that these are two different niches.

People use Google to search the web. People use FaceBook to interact with people. If you see any competition at all, FaceBook may be easier for people to search and FIND people, but Google still probably dominates people search and name queries over FaceBook.

Thanks for taking the time to think.

 

Let's put it this way. Google will (and has) certainly lost some of it's searches (and therefore advertising) to Facebook and other social networking sites, like you mentioned, but ultimately people still rely on search engines (and heavily.) You don't really go to your friends to look up most random information .

This statement was made originally about a year ago, by the way, and even back then with all the hype, when people were saying Google would become obsolete, I didn't believe it.

Chana

 

i don't think facebook will survive for a long time,
it's just another trend, it comes and goes

 

Facebook is earning 300 million dollars a year. It expects to double that figure this year. Google has billions.

 

I'm PARTIALLY in the same line with azharcs here. I mean... in SOME cases Facebook certainly can be SOME kind of threat for google.

Asking recommendations from friends is nothing do: we all do it all the time. We don't need Facebooks or MySpaces to do it. We simply ask our friends who hang out at messenger or when we meet them in real life. Friends can do recommendations.

Facebook CAN take that kind of to the "next level", by making automatic recommendations based on what our friends like. The problem with Facebook is that those "friends" are not always really... like FRIENDS. They are just linked connections with some parameters - bit like semi-friends

It's easy to use google to find information on some matter, but at some point it might be easier to "use facebook/whatnot for recommendations about something when you want to buy".

Google still has one big advantage: it's darn simple. No logging, just one big search field. That's something facebook and other programs need to solve - since they tend to have so many things going on. Google is focusing on just one thing: finding stuff in the simple way.

It's also the way "people have used to do it".