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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat
There's been speculation going way back now that a social search engine is something that could be on Facebook's plate. It is entirely possible too. Like you said, it will deliver a hard blow to Google whose mainstay is their domination of the search market. But they'll have to do it right. Which I think is why we haven't seen it yet. A premature or incapable release would be a horrible blow to Facebook's reputation.
Google can obviously see this threat on the horizon too, which is why they're fighting so hard to get into Facebook dominated territory every chance they can.
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The way I can see them fucking it up is to do with the whole way Facebook seems to run which is about telling the whole world what you are up to 24h a day - the constant updates of what someone just ate/thought/bought/saw. Now mix that together with a search engine and it will be some monster that tells everybody you know what you have been searching for, your favourite sites that you regularly go through the search engine to get to, really invasive stuff that Google logs but then uses privately for themselves will be their next
oh didn't you realise you had to update your privacy settings? disaster.