Facebook: The New Search Engine?

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Join Fred and I as we discuss the new way we come across information.  To be clear, the search function from an organization stand point, pales in comparison to Google, however, it there seems to be a shift in how we discover or come across information.  For years discovering information was mostly relegated to Google searches along with direct search queries.  We touch on one of the latest shifts, the passive recommendations via the open graph.

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  • Michael Stearne

    +1 and Like, actually came from http://slashdot.org/ then http://digg.com/ not to give facebook too much credit.

  • http://www.rubenquinones.com Ruben Quinones

    Yes, social sharing sites have been doing it for years, but it never has shifted the masses from Google as much as Facebook has. :)

  • http://rubenquinones.com/ Ruben Quinones

    Yes, social news/sharing sites have been doing it for years, but not at the point where you can say that there was a mass audience shift from one platform to another in terms of discovery. Collectively yes, but one platform alone, no.

  • http://twitter.com/sarahvnyc Sarah Dryden

    Twitter serves 1 billion+ queries a day as of October 2011. #SocialSearch is where it’s at. http://searchengineland.com/twitter-hits-1-billion-queries-per-day-announces-new-search-tech-52417

  • http://rubenquinones.com/ Ruben Quinones

    Tis dee true, twitter is another big player as far as discovery.