Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Google’s Response to Facebook: “Maka-Maka”
Amazing, I was just writing up something like this yesterday. I said:
Here’s how this would work. Google knows my social network from Gmail, GTalk, and Orkut. [A web browser developed by] Google knows all of my login credentials for all sites on the internet because every time I log into a new site, Google asks me if I’d like to save that information with them so that I don’t have to be bothered with logging in to Amazon, Netflix, eBay, etc. Google has access to my areas of expertise by applying semantic analysis (like what Twine does) to my emails (Gmail), documents/spreadsheets/presentations (Google office suite), and local files (Google Desktop). Google knows my financial portfolio (Google Finance). Google knows what areas I’m interested in (Google Reader, iGoogle, and my browsing and search history).
For good measure, you could also add in GPhone data - who is in my address book, what I’m saying over SMS and phone conversation (transcribed into text via a service like Jott), and my location. The only part (and I admit it’s a crucial part) that I don’t understand is how Google will benefit by “out-opening” Facebook. My guess is that more data = googly goodness. Google will know more about you if you take Google with you, or bring the places you visit to Google.
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Tags: Google, social networks, platform