Zuckerberg’s discussion of search(techcrunch.com)
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Zuckerberg’s discussion of search
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/16/faceboogle/
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Wow, Facebook is already doing 1/3 the search volume of Google, as Zuckerberg says, "without even trying". That's pretty crazy.
What sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York in the last six months and Liked? Or which of my friends or friends of friends work at a company that I’m interested in working at because I want to talk to them about what it’s going to be like to work there? These are questions that you could potentially do at Facebook if we built out this system
This is an interesting UI problem. Its a behaviour that people will already be using FB for. The questions is, through a new UI [1], can you help out the process? Because if so, you're now in a win-win: You can infer intent and you can shift hours on FB from "vanilla" FB time to FB time with intent that they can monetize. This is 30K feet view, but now its an engineering problem for his team. The logic seems worth trying.
So, +1 for Zuck.
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[1] I mean a new "FB interface" style. It would be a lot of work--not just surface, etc.-- all around.
This is an interesting UI problem. Its a behaviour that people will already be using FB for. The questions is, through a new UI [1], can you help out the process? Because if so, you're now in a win-win: You can infer intent and you can shift hours on FB from "vanilla" FB time to FB time with intent that they can monetize. This is 30K feet view, but now its an engineering problem for his team. The logic seems worth trying.
So, +1 for Zuck.
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[1] I mean a new "FB interface" style. It would be a lot of work--not just surface, etc.-- all around.