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You're right on the money, Matthew. Nothing could be less about privacy than Facebook's decision to protect its membership base.

It's clear that Facebook wants to keep their members inside their garden walls.

Facebook is building a moat around its castle to keep the search giant out.


Dear Google, Facebook's Just Not That Into You
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080516-1...

Interesting analysis, Matthew. Always better to be best than first.

You raised a key point no one else has addressed: comScore sells the proprietary research and didn't release it publicly. So only a few i-bankers reviewed the data.

That led to an uninformed media frenzy that relied on a couple analyst notes.

The outcome was predictable: doomsday scenarios for Google paid search advertising, wild speculation, anonymous "insider data" and finally, an intelligent discussion of what comScore data truly indicates.

Great headline, by the way.

Kevin Heisler
Executive Editor
Search Engine Watch

Great post, Nick. I particularly liked the idea of Red Bull fueling the developer community beyond the point of exhaustion. (Instead of buying the New York MLS soccer team, they should sponsor hackathons). This reminds me of the mobile phone app development challenges for motricity and other third party platforms.

The question is ... How will developers make money?

One of my SEW Experts columnists met with Facebook last week and said there's lots of cool stuff going on. Glad you're covering the space.

Kevin Heisler
Executive Editor
SearchEngineWatch.com