Google's nightmare: Facebook 'Like' to replace links? - GoFuckYourself.com

CunningStunt · 04-29-2010, 10:14 PM

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/...ook/index.html

Interesting read.

I for one am not going to be putting Facebook "Likes" buttons all over my sites just to get some FB traffic though.

Where's "SEO Expert", I need that guru's advice.

tical · 04-29-2010, 10:18 PM

Google better buy that shit up

Agent 488 · 04-29-2010, 10:19 PM

short answer no.

CunningStunt · 04-29-2010, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tical

Google better buy that shit up

I just checked my logs for one of my larger sites, 57 hits from Facebook this month, as opposed to:

Links from an Internet Search Engine - Full list
Engine Pages Hits
- Google 459866 467088
- Yahoo! 44795 45973
- Microsoft Bing 39885 40034
- Unknown search engines 9600 9636
- AOL 7996 7998
- Dogpile 2503 2503
- Google (Images) 2476 3636
- AltaVista 1264 1264
- MyWebSearch 1053 1055
- Microsoft Windows Live 1042 1389

I don't think they have an enormous amount to worry about just yet.

Fat Panda · 04-29-2010, 10:22 PM

very interesting, how does facebook treat adult links that get liked?

Agent 488 · 04-29-2010, 10:24 PM

social networking gurus should die. zero practical experience yet know it all.

martinsc · 04-29-2010, 11:29 PM

CunningStunt · 04-29-2010, 11:40 PM

Lol Martin, that's the best cunning stunt in ages.

rock-reed · 04-29-2010, 11:47 PM

I am bored of Facebook, who has the next NEW thing?

CunningStunt · 04-30-2010, 12:24 AM

Twitter does.

CYF · 04-30-2010, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by CunningStunt

Twitter does.

bah, twitter's just a bunch of internet marketers tweeting to other internet marketers, I never got the point of twitter.

papill0n · 04-30-2010, 12:42 AM

cashmore has his finger on the pulse imho, zuckerfucker and his socialization(open graph) of the web are gonna be massive

moeloubani · 04-30-2010, 01:19 AM

this system has been tried already and exists out there

but replace like with digg or vote

alias · 04-30-2010, 01:25 AM

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WiredGuy · 04-30-2010, 01:28 AM

It's a smart idea. A huge social network of (mostly) real people that's placing weighted opinions on what they like. To a search engine, that's a goldmine. Hard to fake through bots and very relevant.
WG

Zyber · 04-30-2010, 01:35 AM

As long as Facebook doesn't like adult, I don't think this will have a direct effect on adult SEO, but in mainstream for sure.

seeandsee · 04-30-2010, 01:44 AM

i heard there are some privacy concerns about that new shit

CunningStunt · 04-30-2010, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WiredGuy

It's a smart idea. A huge social network of (mostly) real people that's placing weighted opinions on what they like. To a search engine, that's a goldmine. Hard to fake through bots and very relevant.
WG

Wise words as usual WG.

People on Facebook: More than 400 million active users
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook

That's a lot of potential feedback right there.

nation-x · 04-30-2010, 03:22 AM

That article actually caused my IQ to go down...

RyuLion · 04-30-2010, 07:55 AM

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CunningStunt · 04-30-2010, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by RyuLion

Just watch this episode and you'll know...
http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/1404/

That was funny. I haven't watched Southpark since they put out that crappy Saddam Hussein and the devil episode. After watching that I'll give them another go.

tiger · 04-30-2010, 10:58 PM

Facebook's strength is the amount of user data, not traffic or click throughs.

The likes could be a spammers dream or a very powerful analytics tools. Just depends on how they implement it.

SomeCreep · 04-30-2010, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by martinsc

CunningStunt · 05-01-2010, 03:32 AM

That skateboard animation is only 41 frames. Incredible. Very nicely done.

I can't for the life of me see how Facebook could prevent it being manipulated on a wholesale scale by cluey webmasters setting up / buying thousands of bogus accounts. For what goal though? No-one I know searches for anything on FB as if it's a search engine.

My hunch - they are doing it specifically to get Google to buy them.

Odin · 05-01-2010, 06:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CunningStunt

That skateboard animation is only 41 frames. Incredible. Very nicely done.

I can't for the life of me see how Facebook could prevent it being manipulated on a wholesale scale by cluey webmasters setting up / buying thousands of bogus accounts. For what goal though? No-one I know searches for anything on FB as if it's a search engine.

My hunch - they are doing it specifically to get Google to buy them.

Facebook is waaay past the "get a google or yahoo to buy me phase" they are on their way to being bigger (traffic wise) then both. This is a major threat to google, and to be honest I am surprised Google didn't respond to Facebook much much much more aggressively over a year ago. The writing was on the wall. There is a long way to go for Facebook, but give them another couple of years and I really wouldn't be surprised if they turned out a fantastic search engine enhanced with social features and rankings. Google better get their act together with Google profiles/buzz, etc fast.

LoveSandra · 05-01-2010, 07:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Agent 488

short answer no.

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