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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by AJ007 on Thursday May 31, 2012 @12:39AM (#4046409)
For a long time we heard the same thing about Google - they have a search engine that makes a lot of money with PPC ads, but what else?

Facebook's time will come. The IPO money could make that happen sooner rather than later (if they don't blow it buying mobile apps.)

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Re:The futures of Facebook and Google are embedded in these ... by azundo on Thursday May 31, 2012 @05:08AM (#4047104)
I think the difference could be that Google is headed up by researchers, and thus the interest and fascination in pushing boundaries with research. While Zuckerberg is a visionary, I'm not sure the same type of commitment to research that is not immediately useful will ever happen within Facebook's walls.
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