How long before Facebook becomes a Portal Search Engine?

So we have more defections from Google to Facebook.

Google Wave gets canned after a poor reception, and the product designer Lars Rasmussen quits and Joins Facebook.

"another reason for leaving was that Google was becoming too unwieldy. He made several comments about Facebook's smaller size and how this made it easier to make an impact and get things done. While Google employs 25,000 staff members, Facebook has about 2000. "The energy there is just amazing, whereas it can be very challenging to be working in a company the size of Google"

There's that many Ex Googlers at Facebook, they now have their own name, "Xooglers" with allegedly 1 in 5 employees being an Xooglers!
Google Wave creator defects to Facebook - Google 24/7 - Fortune Tech

With that amount or Google Talent onboard, you suddenly get an idea of where Facebook is really going, and I think the Farmville Kiddie Social site image will soon disappear as it goes more mainstream and commercial, and morphs into a full blown search engine/portal. Which would take us full circle as we had the poor mans version of that in the days before Google.

So Google may be the number one traffic magnet for your site, but keep an eye on those analytics For the first time in years, it looks like Google is about to have some genuine competition.

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Hi,

I wonder if there is an x-google bod who used to be working wiothin gmail at facebbok? I was reading on the bbc news page this week that apparently Facebook are goping to set up their own email service.

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jacob

Yup you can bet they ex Gmail people onboard

http://www.mylocalforums.com/offline...k-hotspot.html

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Facebook is a close competitor of Google now. In fact there are some statistics that show Facebook had more visitors than Google for some time. It is not hard to imagine that Facebook will upgrade to another level soon. Like Twitter, it has search faction now.

I wasn't aware twitter has a search facility for the web?

jacob

Think he means twitter has a built in search function (didn't it always?)

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Yes I think so. And if the searche ngine is internal its not really going to compete with google really...or am i missing the point...?

jacob

I wonder myself that same question.

Agreed

carwra can you elaborate what you mean?

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Yeah, that is what I meant.