There is no such thing as perfect competition. And although our current financial system strives to perfection, by definition this cannot be achieved at 100%. It would be like expecting that when a ball gets thrown in the air, it would stay put on its highest reached point. However, healthy competition is the result of healthy competitors. Like in ancient duels, when honor was first, “may the best man win”. No wonder some say chivalry is long dead.
Just yesterday a PR correspondent from Facebook’s headquarters admitted to have participated in the spread of ill natured news about Google in several media. Now, although I read through the whole report, I don’t actually want to talk about an old maid’s gossip. I want to analyze what really went wrong.
True, Facebook and Google both have admitted that they represent major competition to each other. Even though they don’t offer the exact same services, they sometimes do step on each other’s toes. I once wrote about Facebook being the new search engine. People would trust their friends to inform them about something than general information. Moreover, on my other post on me spending 60 min with Google’s CEO, Mexican CEO admitted the same statement you just read.
Then again, recognition is part of the battle. You admit you have a worthy adversary and you try to bring out the best in you. That’s what would be healthy and honest. But going about spreading ill natured news? It’s a real shame that Facebook won’t look at itself and see all the wonders it has given to the world and the future ones it can bring.
Furthermore, there are tons of differences between them both that can be used to deviate the battle into new horizons, and, ideally, just plain stop fighting. Google’s next release of Chrome Notebooks is amazing. A new operating system that requires no antivirus, no renewal for it alone updates itself, not just in plug-ins like windows, but the entire system. There are web apps that are included and can be downloaded. Although here I’ll make a quick pause to ask, will it be compatible with millions of software out there designed mainly for Windows? Not even Mac OS has reached that level of compatibility.
Well, after that quick pause, do you see? Although Facebook and Google happen to be partial threats to each other, why won’t they focus on their irreproachable benefits? Perhaps in moments of desperation, heads cannot always think coldly.
All I can say is that Google is shaking thanks to Facebook; FB is a real threat in many more aspects than just the “search engine” characteristic. Check this link, I liked the article: http://www.webseoanalytics.com/blog/google-plus1-vs-facebook-like-the-similarities-and-the-differences/
It’s funny how they started at two very different points in time and purpose and how they slowly started reaching into each other, as to imitate the grandeur of one another. I read the article you just suggested and yes, they do have much more similarities than I dared include in my initial post. Google’s +1 button is a bit of a ghost to the iconic “like” button.
However, I do stand firm on the chivalry of competition. The last giants just proved it cannot be done in times like these, will they ever go back to a chivalric stage though? Or anyone else for that matter? The moment and entity that achieves that, will win so much more than it could ever imagine in return. Naive it is…Utopian it is… but at least Facebook should be cleaner and a bit finer with its methods.
Competition among companies is not and will never be clean, it’s just a fact, just take a look at this other two hilarious situations between MS and Google:
Google Accuses Microsoft Bing of Stealing Search
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/bing-search-stealing-results-honeypot,news-9952.html
Google steals Microsoft code and you should cheer
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/google-steals-microsoft-code-and-you-should-cheer/2892
I love the IT world!