On: Eric Schmidt wants to set the record straight

[r00fus]

Either they don't get it, or their external message is all you're hearing.

If they're not worried about Facebook, they're silly. If Facebook reinvents search (ie, search+trust-web = social search), Google just became Yahoo.

[de90 → r00fus]

"Social search" is only good for things like business recommendations, and idle time activities (games).

Why would search of informative websites need to be influenced by what friends\family like? Not saying Google doesn't need to vamp that up, but I just don't see where Facebook has an edge on Google in the realm of informative search.

[zaidf → de90]

Business recommendation is where the money is in search.

Google doesn't make a lot of $ when you're researching for a paper.