This is pretty old news by now, but this week I want to write a timely post about how Facebook is one whole evolutionary step beyond Google and how it is going to eat the search engine’s lunch.
Google has become one of the biggest businesses on the planet by positioning itself and its advertising exactly one click away from any desired action:
▪ Immediately before finding the new novel you want to buy.
▪ One click before a mortgage application.
▪ Or even one click away from finding some videos of people doing things that are all together less savoury.
The problem for Google is that it cannot affect people’s behaviour before the last search.* Google search is all about the fulfilment of demand; it does not shape, nor does it generate the demand.
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