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April 16, 2008 · Santosh Maharshi

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Slashdot: How Social Networks May Kill Search as We Know It "Recently we discussed a startup that’s blending social networking with traditional Web search. But now high geek Glenn Derene takes it one step further, pronouncing that our increasingly traceable online footprints will transform Google’s dominant algorithm and open up the world of Web search for the 21st century. Speaking to a tuned-in VC guy and scoring a rare interview with Google’s VP of search, Derene may have some meat behind his newly-coined term: ‘faceboogle.’ From the article: ‘As we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out. Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships, shopping habits and surfing addictions, it’s conceivable that the information could attempt to find us — the old concept of push media, but in a far more refined way.

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