Facebook’s gradual transformation into Google+

My belief is that Google's effort to take on Facebook is simply a distraction to keep Facebook's large pool of excellent programmers from developing a search engine that competes effectively with Google Search. Facebook is the only company (not Microsoft) with the data, audience, talent and reach to be a credible threat to Google's search monopoly.

At this point it isn't hard to image how bad were the stories about how Facebook really started. Facebook really never innovated anything, this demonstrates what they are really good at.

I previously stated that Facebook started to look messy with all the stuff they were "integrating" from other services. At least G+ did some good, they started to "integrate" good features.

I think this is an excellent example of how competition ends up benefitting consumers.