Microsoft's astounding executive Qi Lu has recently announced that they have made a deal with Twitter and Facebook. The deal consists of posting real-time status updates on Microsoft's Bing search engine. Creepy right? When you think of this you automatically assume, where is the privacy? Facebook will without a doubt implement a new privacy policy. But in the years to come how will this new deal affect Facebook's popularity as well as Bing's monsterous search engine competitor Google?
For one, I believe not much will change in a short period of time. Privacy issues will arouse and lawsuits will probably be made but how will this affect the popularity of Facebook, bing, and google? I think this is Microsofts weak attempt at competing with google. Google is the number one search engine on the web. It will remain that way for an extremely long time unless something drastic happens. Sorry Microsoft, I guess you'll just have to deal with being number 2 in something on the web.
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I think even Microsoft did not perceive this deal as "Google killer". As you said, it was just an attempt to raise competition and not a very successful one with Google announcing that they are also including tweets. This is definitely a good news for Twitter who will probably experience a growth in its revenues for creating a game-changing product.
ReplyDeleteFrom what i know through friends, not many are using twitter. Not many see the point in using one since there's facebook's status updates. Therefore i believe being able to search for both facebook and twitter's updates is pointless and i agree that its also a weak attempt at competing with google. And i dont think Bing will win against google any time soon, since google is long established as a pretty useful search engine.
ReplyDeleteThis seems to just be another attempt by Microsoft to gain some legitimacy in the tech market. The company is a former shadow of what it once was considering the problems people have had with their products (i.e. Vista). At this point, it'll find anything it can to raise eyebrows. Whether that's in a good or bad way is yet to be seen.
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