Kevin Rose, the dude who started Digg, got the Twitterverse all aflutter yesterday by suggesting that Google is working on a bona fide
Facebook competitor -- to be called Google Me, according to his "very credible source." All such rumors ought to be treated with a healthy dose of skepticism, but today there's been some corroboration from one Adam D'Angelo, Facebook's former CTO. Adam, again citing reliable sources, tells us Google Me is a real project, with significant resources invested in it, and an indication that "
Buzz wasn't enough" to counter the social site's growing presence. Another former Facebook exec, Richard Cooperstein, makes the astute observation that what Google's really trying to do is reclaim time that the ''book has stolen away; he notes that time spent on Facebook relative to Google search and YouTube continues to grow, and the Mountain View outfit has to retaliate to keep itself ahead. You'll find the K-Rose tweet after the break -- he deleted the original, but Google Cache can be a cruel mistress.
posted June 29th 2010 8:16AM
@deepen03 Facebook is too messed up with a million apps now. Their privacy agreements always change, usually for the worse. They keep changing their interface making it harder to find the settings you want to change. It's just a nightmare at this point. I welcome a new, clean, simple social network without any of the game app spam, etc. Facebook is mess and everyone knows it.
@proppat
The worst part is that I specifically left myspace when I was like 14 years old just so I could get away from all the ugly crap people put all over their profiles. Now my facebook feed is cluttered with similar crap I don't care about.
@proppat - are you kidding me, you click the account button and click settings. they have never taken away the settings button.
I definitely would not want someone to be able to Google Me.... they better have their privacy policies pretty solid...
Google Profiles, Buzz, Latitude, Orkut, and the list goes on.
I have an idea, how about making Search actually work? Can't remember once that I got relevant results. Keyword based search is a big fail.
@insectezoid
i've never not found what i want.. maybe you should learn how to search better..
@insectezoid
What are you proposing other than 'keyword search'?
Do you want a system which you supply all the words to that aren't relevant and see if it can find the missing man?
Or... what?
Do you have some new concept for human language which nobody else has thought of?
Maybe you could just draw a pencil sketch of the concept and it could find it.
Quick - draw a pencil sketch of the captain of the Hindenburg and we'll see if it can find his name for you.
I'll try the old 'words' way.
@samisax
If you think that sifting through tens of pages of junk results is pleasurable, then you really have low expectations of life. Most people give up after the first page.
There's so much more that good search engines enable, but fortunately for Google, people don't know what they're NOT finding due to the limitations for their engine.
@savagemike
Already back in the '90 I've used a search engine that allowed searching for two keywords that appear within a given word distance from one another. Google doesn't allow you to do this, it's either two keywords next to each other, or just somewhere on the same webpage.
I'm sorry to say this, but Google Search is way too basic.
And guys, don't even get me started on semantic search. Keyword-only search is primitive and no one is going to convince me otherwise.
@insectezoid /implying anyone cares what you think
@scots79
Counting you too, at least 3 cared enough to reply. It's OK though, if you resort to an ad hominem attack, it's a sign you don't have anything substantial to contradict what I'm saying.
At any rate, people thought that cellphones were good enough, until it took one company to show that's there plenty of room for improvement. That woke everyone (including Google) from their long slumber and consumers benefit from the renewed competition.
I don't know why all the hatorade - people should be looking forward to a similar thing happening with search.
@insectezoid
I'll go along they could improve it.
That is a far cry from the hyperbole that you have never once found what you were looking for using google.
@insectezoid
who said anything about sifting? i was referring to an intelligent choice of keywords to type in.. you can usually get what you're looking for on the first page of search.. 2 if you're lazy with your keywords.. i don't get why you bitch?
@samisax
ahem..
i don't get why you bitch.
(bitch as a verb)
Weird name!
They should call it iGoogle - that would be funny as hell.
I don't even use any of those sites but I would if they named it that.
@savagemike They've had an iGoogle page for a while:
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en&source=iglk
ig = iGoogle and it shows that way on the page. It's basically a personalized homepage that incorporates things like search, news, weather, latitude, etc. they can transfer that into a social networking page.
@juanvaldez
hahahahah.... you want to know how fried my mind must be?
I actually have an iGoogle page.
hahahahahah.
I thought it sounded real familiar. ;-)
Google me! Very scary.
Sounds like "tickle me Elmo" but with Google, more like Oscar the grouch
I wish Google would stop trying to reinvent stuff (like Buzz) and focus on new stuff. Do they honestly think they're going to overthrow Facebook?
If you consider all the tools that Google have at its disposal - with so many of them out of Beta now ;)
Google Me could be truly amazing
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs108.snc4/35741_457047767645_553467645_6188910_3875199_n.jpg
Totally unrelated, but I found this on reddit:
http://www.engadget.com/2004/08/16/would-you-sell-your-kidney-s-for-a-hush/
Goodbye Facebook
Hilarious...
Its quite telling that Steve Jobs was RIGHT about google. Other companies are competition with google.
It's GOOGLE that is choosing to enter their market and compete with them. Google wants to start shit with everyone and pretty soon it will backfire.
@scots79
Counting you too, at least 3 cared enough to reply. It's OK though, if you resort to an ad hominem attack, it's a sign you don't have anything substantial to contradict what I'm saying.
At any rate, people thought that cellphones were good enough, until it took one company to show that's there plenty of room for improvement. That woke everyone (including Google) from their long slumber and consumers benefit from the renewed competition.
I don't know why all the hatorade - people should be looking forward to a similar thing happening with search.
Yep bye bye Facebook!!
This is fail central
One thing I really like about the Googleverse when it comes to social networking is pictures. Facebook downsizes your images to crappy 50kb quality. Google's social projects integrate image galleries to Picasa Web Albums so all the pictures you post can seen in their sterling, up to 20mb, 50 megabyte original quality.
Let's see, Google wants to know:
Google.com - My internet searches
GMail - My correspondence
GoogleDocs - My spreadsheets and documents
GoogleEarth/Street View - Where I live, including pictures and my WiFi connection
ChromeOS - Everything else I do in the internet
GoogleMe - All of my friends names and info
Wow....I think I'll just go ahead and gmail my usernames and passwords to Google to save time.
@TP for my Bunghole
Oh yeah!
@TP for my Bunghole I will Bing my Google into your Yahoo!
Google: All your friends are belong to us.
Google should just buy Facebook...no way a whole bunch of people gonna leave Facebook for this. Imho, of course ;-)
Google, soon it will take over the world...
Now that Google knows your Address, Emails, contacts friends and other things it seeks even more information about you!
Another way for Google to collect data about me? Fantastic.
pretty soon your going to be able to google your old highschool sweetheart, see how big she's gotten, find out all of her hobbies/interests, and have a street-view of her house and workplace...stalking is going to be SOOOOOOOO EEEEEAAAASSSYY.
Nothing will beat Facebook...People got so used to it....And not every has or wants a gmail account..
Haha. Good one.
ok.... anyways, im gonna go on facebook.