There was a bookmarklet that received a lot of attention in the past few days. The bookmarlet was addressing to fact that Google Search now includes results from Google+ right into the interface - a privilege that is not given to Facebook, Twitter and MySpace pages. Now given that at least Facebook and Twitter have refused to let Google parse their pages, this seems a little tricky for me to argue against but the argument of the engineers who developed the extension was that by adding results Google is degrading their own core product and focusing on revenues not users.
Now while there are also reports like this where the extension probably isn't behaving correctly, there are also people who open-heartedly welcome such an extension. I have nothing against them in fact having Facebook and Twitter statistics in search would be awesome, but I am not so enthused by the idea that this is publicized not just a bunch of people coming together to make something that they like but very clearly as engineers from competing products taking shots at a competitor and asking them to Focus On The User while they themselves don't! My experiments:
1. Kim Sherrell - No Google+ Link on FB Search
Among the very active Google+ users that I follow.
2. Trey Ratcliff - No Google+ Link on FB
Very active on Google+
3. Ashton Kutcher - Missing Twitter Link
He is supposed to one of the most followed celebs on Twitter but Facebook probably doesn't want to acknowledge that.
4. Some not-celeb people active on Google+
My Stance
Sure, you have every right to reduce seepage to competitor when you are providing a service to them. That is what I would have done, that is something everyone does, and even if you do not agree with it you have no right to force your morality on others. This is different case though; here Facebook seems to be providing (through Bing) web search results that do not match with those provided by Bing on Bing; one should be a little more open to interpretations.
And oh, Google+ results on Google Search do benefit me. If they do not benefit you, may be yours friends/peers are not active on Facebook yet - give it some time.
Now while there are also reports like this where the extension probably isn't behaving correctly, there are also people who open-heartedly welcome such an extension. I have nothing against them in fact having Facebook and Twitter statistics in search would be awesome, but I am not so enthused by the idea that this is publicized not just a bunch of people coming together to make something that they like but very clearly as engineers from competing products taking shots at a competitor and asking them to Focus On The User while they themselves don't! My experiments:
1. Kim Sherrell - No Google+ Link on FB Search
Among the very active Google+ users that I follow.
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| Web Search Results on Facebook |
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| Web Search Results on Bing |
Very active on Google+
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| Search Results on Bing |
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| Web Search Results on Facebook |
He is supposed to one of the most followed celebs on Twitter but Facebook probably doesn't want to acknowledge that.
4. Some not-celeb people active on Google+
My Stance
Sure, you have every right to reduce seepage to competitor when you are providing a service to them. That is what I would have done, that is something everyone does, and even if you do not agree with it you have no right to force your morality on others. This is different case though; here Facebook seems to be providing (through Bing) web search results that do not match with those provided by Bing on Bing; one should be a little more open to interpretations.
And oh, Google+ results on Google Search do benefit me. If they do not benefit you, may be yours friends/peers are not active on Facebook yet - give it some time.
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