Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Facebook —> Google

If current patterns continue, by Facebook will eclipse Google in traffic by 2013.

No one knows quite what the future will bring, but this chart’s prediction doesn’t surprise me. I’ve blogged before about “the end of search”—that we’re already fully in the “social web” and will soon be heading into a web where curation and filters are king.

So how soon before Facebook becomes as “Big Brother”-y as Google? (Oh, wait, it already is.)

How soon before Facebook becomes as overwhelming as Google’s hundreds of thousands of results? (Why not ask your thousands of friends?)

I’m interested in what’s next. What services are going to emerge to help us navigate, understand, and discover on the web?