Should Google buy Facebook? What would happen if these two major Internet companies merged? This is a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. After all you have two of largest Internet companies who are both dominant forces in their fields. This will form one company that would become a gigantic Internet monster. Google has tons of cash built up. What better way than spending their cash reserves on buying Facebook. However, I would for see a problem with both regulators approving the deal and current Facebook partner, Microsoft letting this happen. But, for a second. imagine all the information at this new company. This new company would basically control the net. Your thoughts?
The future of media is the Internet. Advertisers are starting to realize that more ad dollars have to be allocated to the web. In Q1, a record 1,100,000,000,000 display ads were served to US Internet users. That’s 15% higher than last year. Total ad spending for the Qtr reached $2.7 billion. So who do you think iwas the largest display advertiser in the 11st Qtraa/ none other than fascebook with 176 billion impression. this was the first time in a long time that yahoo has been beat in this category. They came in 2nd with 132 billion ads served.
Both Facebook and Google Have entered into the world of URL shorteners. At present, Google’s goo.gl will only be used for Feedburner and Google Toolbar while Facebook’s FB.me is currently used on links from mobile versions of it’s site. This is not be good news for bit.ly, currently the most popular shortener service. I am sure it’s only a matter of time before Google and Facebook expand these services.
Why are they starting these services? It all about the data thats collected. Very valuable and very scary to think about the information these companies collect and use.
Do I see this a move away from .com’s? Not at all. Both companies went for a 2 letter TLD as opposed to the 3 letter .com in order to shorten the URL as much as possible