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by bee_rider 753 days ago
Missing on social media was a pretty big error for Google, right?
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queuebert 753 days ago
They didn't miss on social media from a social perspective -- Google+ was a great user experience. But it did make it harder to harvest people's attention for ad revenue.
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rsynnott 752 days ago
They... didn't, tho. They failed in their attempts to make a Facebook clone (and a Twitter clone, actually; see Google Buzz), but Youtube was very successful.
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dylan604 753 days ago
maybe for Googs, but I think it was a net positive for society in general
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xnx 752 days ago
Disagree. I'd trust a large social network from Google much more than one from Facebook or Twitter.
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fmobus 752 days ago
If you squint, YouTube is a social network. Can we trust it? Only a smidge more than Facebook and today's Twitter.
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dylan604 752 days ago
why?
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