3 Realistic Reasons Why Google is Afraid of Facebook


Facebook Blocks Google’s Mission

Google’s mission is “to organize world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The company hates “closed ecosystem.” But if you see, Facebook is hardly searchable from outside Facebook. For example, you can easily import all your Gmail contacts whereas it is hard or not even possible to import the Facebook contacts. So any content created in Facebook is useless to Google. That is the main reason why Google launched Google+, a challenge to Facebook’s vision of a walled garden. Since the launch of Google+, Facebook has become more open, but not to the extent that Google wants.