Comments on: Why Google Social Search Will Beat Facebook

By: The Race Towards A Relevant Real-Time | Skeptic Geek

The Race Towards A Relevant Real-Time | Skeptic Geek — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:02:34 +0000

[...] have written earlier about the advantage Google has over Facebook in achieving relevance in real-time. There have been [...]

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:06:08 +0000

It would be great if they were committed to it. Going by public statements, even Facebook is part of the Data Portability Group. Net result? Zilch.

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:15:19 +0000

It turns out Google will not only adopt such a protocol (they already started it with some others): http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ and http://www.opensocial.org/

By: Future of Social Media…and Media « Convergence Emergence

Future of Social Media…and Media « Convergence Emergence — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:48:51 +0000

[...] that offer value to people. That’s the rationale behind Google’s Social Search – this posting by Mahendra Pasule explains why. I like the terms used by Mahendra too, particularly social [...]

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:55 +0000

Glad you stopped by!

Well, a lot many developments have happened after this post, and things are really getting interesting in this space. Would love to read your elaboration.

By: holdenpage

holdenpage — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:08:14 +0000

Hey Mahendra

I don't know how I missed this in my RSS reader but glad I decided to stop by

Anyways, great post and has really made me think about a few things that I might elaborate more on later.

By: Mahendra

Mahendra — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:47:11 +0000

Interesting question, Mark. The question is, even if such a protocol were technically feasible, who will adopt it and why?

By: Mark Essel

Mark Essel — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:09:23 +0000

Great post Mahendra, and the filtering of social information is clear justification for your supposition. Do you believe there's room for a social protocol that can supersede the need Facebook or Google to own our social graph?

By: Wordpress ate my infopornstars

Wordpress ate my infopornstars — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:18:18 +0000

[...] Why Louis Gray (louisgray.com) digs greader, and uses it like a champ, like another super human filtering pro Mahendra (skepticgeek.com) [...]

By: asuph

asuph — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:10:37 +0000

You used "I follow" as a part of your example, so I was asking the question. In any case, my question is simply this:

how many people will use/update their google profiles and use them as part of 'socializing' online vis a vis same about facebook. At the moment, FB has huge advantage there, I believe. It's already a social network. Google has a long way to go there.

Then again, on flip side, maybe the kind of people who will 'use' social search may actually be more accurately represented by the type of web-individual that you use as an example.

I just think jury isn't out yet on this. That's all. Too many uncertainties.