I hear ya. I think it's more of a paranoid move from Google because it is beginning to look like SOCIAL SHARING traffic will eclipse SEARCH TRAFFIC as the primary way people discover websites. Of course, there's the relevancy issue and, since we're all marketers here, there's a lot of KOOLAID DRINKING to the notion that Socially shared content is more TRUSTWORTHY than SEO'd shit. Just from experience, they can both be shit and... given the massive saturation of spam at Twitter... social content can sometimes be LESS trustworthy than searched content.
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Originally Posted by sharphead
Pretty much... G-Mail is big, but Facebook is even bigger if you can imagine that... and a LOT of people on Facebook never ever got G-Mail invites because 99% of them were NOT geeks who coveted the invite-only passes for registration, so they signed up with either Hotmail or Yahoo.
Now if Google can think of a way of making it STUPID easy to convert to GMail to attract some more people over, they also stand a good chance to take on FB for being the dominant player in the social sphere. Next, interactive gaming and that's pretty much it.
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