Google recently announced that is integrating Facebook page updates into its search results.
This is interesting to me on a few fronts:
1. Google only has updates from Pages - not individual users (Bing gets updates from any user who marks their update available to everyone). It would seem eventually Google will get the full feed.
2. Facebook is giving their feeds away for free, while Twitter is charging. Assuming Facebook is able to get an increasingly large set of its users to open their updates to everyone, will Twitter have to give up any hope of monetizing its Firehose through search engines?
3. I'm going to get really annoyed if I have to look at different buckets of Twitter vs. Facebook updates when I'm doing searches. I can't imagine how this won't create unattractive, and often useless, clutter. What will the solution be? Will only one ultimately win? Will some other solution step in to aggregate all of the personal "updates" floating around the web?
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