Hey,

Yesterday I read a story, that can be found here and I found it pretty interesting. What are everyone elses views on it? I did a post on my own blog about it too if anyone's interested, here. What are other people's views on this?

There are two aspects:

1. Future fate of search engine like Google

2. Online Paid Advertising.

Regarding functionality/efficiency of search engines in the emergence of wide array of Social Websites like facebook, where you need to login to get the information, the search engine crawlers are simply denied access to most of the data stored in the social website's custody, these blind spots are a real cause of concern. Each social website has actually vast amount of data, which come up from trustworthy sources, like something your friend (Real life) has recommended for you. That's a challenge, which seem to be quite visible in the Internet horizon.

Secondly, it appears to be rather difficult to monetize social media traffic for those website owners primarily because of member resistance. I would like to recall the kinda resistance offered by members of Entrecard when paid advertising was introduced in the system few months back. So, in that perspective, search engine marketing is still in the safer side.

But overall, the mission of most search engines, which is to integrate global widely scattered online data into coherent information stream in terms of specific search queries, are likely to lack completeness because of vast inaccessible data.

So far as SEO is concerned it will still continue to work. But if you do not take under consideration Social Media Marketing, you are surely going to loose a large market share.

I have been hearing about facebook becoming a threat for google because of its advertisement efficiency. I am not very sure about the depth of the situation but I don't think facebook is going to be a major threat for Google's Advertisement programme (at least in the coming few years). Why I am so confident about it? The answer is the widespread roots of google into the internet. People are sort of getting used to google ads on websites and although Google itself is making huge profits, The advertisement programme of Google is a source of income for thousands of webmasters.
So I don't think Google is going to be damaged by the progress of facebook in the shorter run, but yes, Google has to take some steps to continue its dominance over the internet in the longer run.

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