Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight

Re:Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight by r00fus on Thursday January 27, 2011 @06:12PM (#2149999)

Either they don't get it, or their external message is all you're hearing.

If they're not worried about Facebook, they're silly. If Facebook reinvents search (ie, search+trust-web = social search), Google just became Yahoo.

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Re:Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight by de90 on Thursday January 27, 2011 @08:45PM (#2150453)

"Social search" is only good for things like business recommendations, and idle time activities (games).

Why would search of informative websites need to be influenced by what friends\family like? Not saying Google doesn't need to vamp that up, but I just don't see where Facebook has an edge on Google in the realm of informative search.

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Re:Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight by zaidf on Thursday January 27, 2011 @09:14PM (#2150516)

Business recommendation is where the money is in search.

Google doesn't make a lot of $ when you're researching for a paper.

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