http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/facebook-search-2/
Say what you will about Twitter, but the Iranian situation has shown that its real time search feature is unmatched in reporting information as it's happening.
Not Google, not CNN, not Anandtech can match it in reporting breaking news--and as more users come along it'll only continue to get better.
Now imagine if this becomes fully launched on Facebook, you would unleash chaos. Imagine the thoughts of 200 million users and still growing fast all being searchable, compared to the 5-6 million Twitter users (of which 30-40% remain active) that at the moment, like it or not, are capable of providing very important information.
I know AT loves to hate on Facebook/Twitter, but this will revolutionize our ability to find what anyone's thinking on any given basis (of course 99.999% of it will be useless), but the possibilities are just endless. Even the almighty Google or Microsoft will have absolutely no ability to compete with them on this basis, given FB's current user base.
If implemented correctly, Facebook's current valuation (assuming its investors didn't know about this) of $10 billion will increase many times this.
Say what you will about Twitter, but the Iranian situation has shown that its real time search feature is unmatched in reporting information as it's happening.
Not Google, not CNN, not Anandtech can match it in reporting breaking news--and as more users come along it'll only continue to get better.
Now imagine if this becomes fully launched on Facebook, you would unleash chaos. Imagine the thoughts of 200 million users and still growing fast all being searchable, compared to the 5-6 million Twitter users (of which 30-40% remain active) that at the moment, like it or not, are capable of providing very important information.
I know AT loves to hate on Facebook/Twitter, but this will revolutionize our ability to find what anyone's thinking on any given basis (of course 99.999% of it will be useless), but the possibilities are just endless. Even the almighty Google or Microsoft will have absolutely no ability to compete with them on this basis, given FB's current user base.
If implemented correctly, Facebook's current valuation (assuming its investors didn't know about this) of $10 billion will increase many times this.
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