Comments on: Google Buy Reveals Social Media Focus

By: Eric Enge

Eric Enge — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:30:54 +0000

I think that this acquisition has to be a small piece in a larger picture. For example, we have “Google Shared Stuff” at: http://www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff. This is still not officially announced, and is in fact is a non-crawlable section of the Google site (/s2 is named in robots.txt).

Google has not taken the lead in social media, but you can be sure that they are thinking about how to establish leadership in the space in the near future.

By: Jon Kelly

Jon Kelly — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:46:16 +0000

Switching cost is clearly higher in social media in search (though there is a ton of momentum use there too). Disagree on the name coolness though, twitter wins the name contest by a mile. Especially with the derivative tweats.
It’s still hard to imaginge either even getting within eyesight of mainsteam.

By: graywolf

graywolf — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:52:35 +0000

I'm going to disagree, google had twitter before it was twitter when they bought Dodgball, and let it wither and die in the corner like the fruitcake Aunt Verna sends you around the holidays.

Jiaku may have a cooler name but they have no critical customer base, I'm much happier with twitter and I've tried both even the twitku hybrid. If I was Yahoo I'd jump all over twitter. There's nothing inherently "broken" with twitter, so unless Google can give you something in the improved jiaku that isn't in twitter I don't see there being a reason to switch.