Facebook vs Google

Just yesterday, we  posted a new about Google’s plan of developing a new service to rival Facebook, but Facebook have completely turned the tables by rolling out a new beta application called Facebook Questions.

Facebook Questions lets its users pose questions to and share answers with millions of people around the world.

Although asking questions or advices is not a new thing on Facebook, this new feature will certainly push Facebook users to relay on Facebook Questions instead of going to Google or other search engines.

Remember when you posted, “Feeling bored..dunno wad to do” or “Just broke up with my GF/BF,” on you Facebook status and the overwhelming response or advice that you got??

Facebook Question is something similar, but on a larger scale. It will allow you to pose question to the entire community and the probability of getting a right solution is very high when a question is answered by the collective knowledge of more than 500 million users and beyond.

“Facebook Questions helps you tap into the collective knowledge of the more than 500 million people on Facebook,” Blake Ross, the company’s director of product, wrote in a blog post.

“For example, if you’re vacationing in Costa Rica and want to know the best places to surf, you can use Facebook Questions to get answers from nearby surfing enthusiasts,” adds Ross in his blog. “Because questions will also appear to your friends and their friends, you’ll receive answers that are more personalized to you.”

What’s more, users can also add tags to their questions like movies, photography, cycling etc..and the question will be show to people who have expressed interest in the particular topics resulting in more informative answers.

Though this new Facebook application is still in beta mode and only available to about one percent users, this new application will surely take away a significant amount search engine traffic which happens to be dominated by Facebook.

When this new application will be rolled out completely or how the final product will function is unknown, but one thing that bugs me at the moment is, how fast can i get the answer to my question with this new Facebook Q&A application?

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