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>I explained what Google can help with: searching for information, reading news, etc. He showed me that he read news and did searches for things all from within the Facebook app.

This is the most frightening thing I've read in a while.

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AOL 2.0

I can only imagine being frightened by this if I held a large stake in Google. Do you have a different reason?

This is such a crappy suggestion: That we are all just acting in our own self-interest. I'm privileged enough that this is not the case, and I despise the implication. It's like voting for Trump just because of the huge tax cut I will get. Not everyone thinks this way.

Death of the open web. It isn't google per se, it's that there is no knowledge/interest of the things outside of the Facebook garden.

Google sends you to other websites, Facebook tends to keep you within their walled garden/echo chamber.

Now, I am not saying google is the perfect answer, but I consider it a hell of a lot better than facebook.

This. I don't know if the parent was asking a serious question or trolling, but my response is an "anti-Facebook" one, not a "pro-Google" one. Facebook has demonstrated that it is willing to exert much more editorial control, and is much more interested in "controlling your experience". Google seems focused on attempting to provide you with the most quality content that addresses your query.

Maybe that's what it is. "Quality content" and "Facebook" in the same sentence sounds absurd.

I guess it depends on how you see things. I see Google wanting to exert their own power and control on you as well. See all of their own property integrations into search results, quoting the first result as an "answer" whether it be right or wrong, snippets in news, Amp, Yelp and other suing Google for preferring its own placements, Google recommending you install a modern browser called Chrome when you're using Firefox (not sure if they do this anymore. I'd assume not).

Google also linking to the web after ads or their own stuff is a benefit over FB of course. But I don't see that being Google's focus.

Yet Google keeps adding things to their results pages to keep you either on Google or within Google properties. See for example Yelp and others suing.

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