Comments on: Google Will Be Beaten By Facebook, Mahalo: Scoble

By: bald pasta › And my friends wonder why I want to be a hermit

bald pasta › And my friends wonder why I want to be a hermit — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:17:43 +0000

[...] here. The thesis: Facebook will replace Google. I have seen this a few times around the internet. [...]

By: Diaz8

Diaz8 — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:20:28 +0000

Kyte is actually having an awesome facebook promo I think…I hear it’s quite cool….correct me if I’m wrong but I think the deadline is like oct 14th…worth checking out!…. http://www.kyte.tv/contest

By: dell 1691p

dell 1691p — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:45:09 +0000

I don’t want to see this happend

By: asdsad

asdsad — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:24:23 +0000

lol the fatty is so UGLY

By: TechCrunchies » Did Robert Scoble forget Nokia?

TechCrunchies » Did Robert Scoble forget Nokia? — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:39:07 +0000

[...] Riley caused a mass heart-attack of the Techcrunch audience this week when he reported Robert Scoble’s prediction that Mahalo, Techmeme and Facebook are very soon going to destroy [...]

By: Sid Vicious

Sid Vicious — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:46:21 +0000

Mahalo sucks, they have to manually make a search results page for anything u want to search for, eg: try looking up “black sabbath” alone and you’ll get some results, try “black sabbath new album” and they’ll give u google results!

By: Gandoo

Gandoo — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:29:16 +0000

hmmmm…neither scoble nor calcanis are thick. just full of shit (literally)

By: SmoothSpan Blog

SmoothSpan Blog — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:19:08 +0000

Web 2.0 Personality Types…

There’s a Facebook application called Personal DNA that I came across recently. It’s like a Myers Briggs personality test. When I took it, I found my personality was “Encouraging Leader”. It’s a fortune cookie, but…

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:49:52 +0000

I watched all three vids. I don’t think he makes a case. He also thinks Yahoo is going to whip some magic up out of all their Web 2.0 aquisitions. I like the idea of social search and think it could be a force… But Mahalo is not that force. Mahalo is a piece of crap and Scoble thinks that if you hook up enough horses, you can make that wagon fly. Not in this world.

By: Lelia Katherine Thomas

Lelia Katherine Thomas — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:28:36 +0000

Oh please. No one’s going to Facebook, et. al to do their searching. They’re going there to waste time. (I say this with unfortunate experience.) Google does have to evolve and become more stupid-user-friendly, but as it stands, no one is serving up as reliable and relevant or as wide a selection of results.

I don’t know about where y’all live, but people are still saying “just Google it” around me, and I don’t see that changing in a few years time without some catastrophic (or amazingly inventive/creative) events occurring. They haven’t yet, and I don’t imagine they will. If they do, Google can just buy them. Duh.

By: bonelyfish

bonelyfish — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:14:53 +0000

The social networking websites are practically an Internet on top of the Internet, or augmented Internet. When they grow, get too massive and pieces falling apart, they would need advanced search engine to work. And to differentiate and make money, cooperation with other web resources will start (in fact stared) to surface. Its useless for Facebook to develop a search engine, because third parties are needed to effectively line up the resources.

The point? When mature, Google will buy out or join with the winner(s). So its nonsense to say ‘beaten’ in busienss world. We have seen so many unthinkable partners.

By: Knight of Schtick

Knight of Schtick — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:00:58 +0000

I think its an intriguing idea, albeit economically impractical, that another company’s search fabric will so dutifully usurp the leviathan that is Google in four years. I recently watched a documentary called “Who killed the electric car?” which chronicles how the electronic car was removed from the marketplace by a number of factors (pointing heavily toward corporate greed). It was, essentially, a fabric of decisions that influenced the demise of the vehicle. More importantly, the film recognizes that human behaviors surrounding automobiles and fuel consumption kept the car from gaining the foothold in the market that it deserved. Like the electric car, noise-free, socially graphed…never mind “pure” …search results must overcome the momentum of Google Advertising mechanism AND it must overcome the homogenized behavior of users who are comfortable with search-as-we-know-it. How many “advanced searchers” did he say there were? “Not many.” I’d prefer it if he were right, but I’m skeptical.

By: RustyS

RustyS — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:48:40 +0000

Scoble touting Facebook and a Calicanis operation? Wow. That’s really out of the ordinary.

By: Heluna Antispam

Heluna Antispam — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:11:06 +0000

The problem is that the growth of the web is much, much too fast for Mahalo or Facebook or any other human-centric solution. Back in 1994 when NCSA had a “What’s New on the Web” page that really did display everything that was new on the web that day, Mahalo might have had a good shot at becoming a human-based search engine, but let’s be honest here. This is exactly what Yahoo did. They started out as a human-reviewed directory of listings, and the growth of the web overwhelmed them to the point where they basically had to switch to a search engine.

I’m not sure what Robert is thinking here– if he’s decrying Google’s indexing of video, that’s a relatively easily solved problem, especially for them. If he’s taking them to task for showing _relevant_ and timely results, I don’t see how that’s any different than what got them to be number one in the first place. There was a huge paradigm switch from Yahoo or Altavista over to Google, almost overnight, because of their relevance and timeliness.

By: Confused

Confused — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:49:29 +0000

Scoble, alas, understands far too little how, why and what people search for. His line of reasoning is ludicrous, and has been effectively (and stingingly) taken down by someone who knows what he’s talking about, Danny Sullivan: http://searchen...0827-121805.php

“Scoble is spam.” — Agreed. From now on, I will choose to ignore such “attention-grabbing” but intellectually and rhetorically vacuous (not to mention buzzword-filled) attempts at punditry. This is idiocy, and written by someone who simply does not understand (and has not investigated) how the unwashed masses outside the valley search, and *what* they search for.

By: Trevor Ginn

Trevor Ginn — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:16:53 +0000

Whilst I think that social search will be a beautiful thing (the wisdom of the crowds and all that) can humans indexing really cope with the volume and diversity of searches which will be required.?

By: Dominic

Dominic — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:11:00 +0000

Actually, search can only improve if the millions and millions of dead websites and web pages are trashed. Relevant information is what’s needed in search. I grow weary of having to go thru hundreds of dead links and useless information. All search companies need to clean house.

By: Rohan

Rohan — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:13:41 +0000

According to Alexa, Mahalo may be getting 35% of its traffic internally:

30% from greenhouse.mahalo.com – used by part time guides to add Mahalo search results via the Greenhouse program

5% guides.mahalo.com – most likely used by Mahalo employees

I realize Alexa is not the greatest source but this is interesting nonetheless.

By: Buxr.com

Buxr.com — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:15:57 +0000

Mahalo = Yellowpages!

Scoble’s post is a nice example of link baiting. To bad there isn’t a section on SEO on TC?

By: TechDumpster (living in First Life)

TechDumpster (living in First Life) — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:14:18 +0000

It’s comical how TechCrunch has stopped trackbacks from TechDumpster. Sounds like someone’s a bit afraid of our more intelligent commentary.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:55:02 +0000

Scoble doesn’t think very clearly.

Does he know that over 25% of google queries are UNIQUE in any given period?

Is a human powered search network going to build adequate landing pages for a billion unique queries a year? and update them all? Or is it going to decide what we “REALLY” meant when we typed “dll msconfig error 234″?

Any human powered search engine is going to collapse under its own weight as it grows, and look increasingly useless compared to WikiP, which realizes what niche human powered result pages should occupy in the netverse.

bah.

Scoble should stick to pimping facebook widgets.

By: Don Vaillancourt

Don Vaillancourt — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:48:46 +0000

After reading this post I was just thinking that I don’t use search as much as I used to. I’ve pretty much already picked the sites that I will frequently visit. Sometimes I will get suggestions from people.

The only times I use search is when I have a phone number for example and looking for the company’s website or looking to see who sells or reviews a specific product. But I hardly use search to browse the internet anymore.

By: Coleman Foley

Coleman Foley — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:19:15 +0000

google should just add wikipedia results to its search results, like it added news results and video results when they made universal search.

By: no thanks

no thanks — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:11:20 +0000

Jason Calacanis & Robert Scoble both are annoying.

Mahalo is struggling. Calacanis & Scoble are just doing self promotions.

By: Bob Warfield

Bob Warfield — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:52:57 +0000

The future of search is a Swarm Competition approach where some big benefactor (Yahoo!) links together the 1000 or so AltSearch entities to create the Father of All Social Graphs and do better searching:

http://smoothsp...engines-part-3/

Cheers!