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Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-guys-should-team-up-and-start-a-search-engine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over the weekend, Blake Ross, Facebook's product director and co-founder of Firefox, worked with Facebook engineers Tom Occhino and Marshall Roch to demonstrate how evil they think Google's newly launched Search plus Your World (SPYW) feature really is, and created a 'proof of concept' showing how it should really work. His team got some help from Twitter engineers and Myspace engineers, and consulted other social networks as well to really make sure the message hits home: SPYW should surface results from all social networks, not just Google+. By leveraging Google's own algorithms, the group built a bookmarklet called 'don't be evil' (a jab at Google's informal motto) and released it on a new website named Focus on the User."

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  1. Re:Wait...who told whom what? by grcumb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facebook? Facebook is telling Google not to be evil? FACEBOOK?

    I dunno, the story lost all credibility for me when I read the phrase 'MySpace engineers'....

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  2. LOL by msauve · · Score: 4, Funny

    Facebook telling someone how not to be evil? /. needs a comedy section. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

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  3. Re:Wait...who told whom what? by ArcadeNut · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe it was a typo and they really meant to say "My Space Engineers"....

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