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Comment Re:Don't Be Evil (Score 0, Troll) 208

How does Facebook prevent Google from indexing it? It doesn't - in fact, you can find tons of people, pages and other parts of Facebook on Google. Hell, if you want API access there's Open Graph. If you want to do large scale scraping on Facebook you can also contact then. Judging by Facebook's robot.txt, Google has this permission (and so does several other search engines).

Comment Don't Be Evil (Score 1, Troll) 208

The video of the proof of concept looks actually awesome, and much better than how Google is doing it now. It's also much better for the user since it pulls the content from all social networks and other relevant sites. Interestingly, they're using Google's own search engine to do this:

So, how does it work? If Google’s search engine decides that it’s relevant to surface a Google+ page in response to a query where Google+ content is hardcoded, the tool searches Google for the name of the Google+ page and identifies the social profiles within the first ten pages of Google’s search results (top 100 results). The ones Google ranks highest, regardless of what social network they are from, replace the previous results that would only be from Google+.

In my opinion this demonstrates perfectly that it's entirely possible for Google. It's just that they don't want to do it - they want more control for themselves and more information about users for advertising and marketing. Social networking would be awesome source of data for Google and they must be crying blood that they didn't get it before Facebook and Twitter surfaced. If they had their own social network they would get all that. But by far Google+ is an epic failure.

Comment Re:Shouldn't be surprised (Score 1) 321

No, they need their service engine to make them the most money. By dropping sites that have advertisers, they're forcing people to use AdWords to get interested buyers, therefore increasing the ad click prices and the amount of advertisers they have. Don't think ever for a second that Google does this for quality purposes - they do it for their monetary benefit.

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