The facebook Search Engine - Google Beware

Further to my blog piece speculating on how long will it take for Facebook to die.

There was a time when Yahoo was big until Google outgrew them and eventually like many others in the past, Yahoo was destined to be nothing more than a parasite. Google's simplicity was so appealing that more than half the world understands the Internet by the word Google.

In order to survive. Google moved ahead from Orkut and started Google+. Since, it's inception 3 years back. It has made a small little space in this universe of the Internet. Now, it is time for ThinkTank of Facebook to look beyond the social media experience and create another way to go beyond the uncharted territory of life after Google.

I am pretty sure that Facebook is in the process of developing a search engine which will hook everyone on the internet in a way that they stop going to other search engines and bring all the social media and search functionality under one roof. Facebook will no longer be Facebook. It will become the only word that the next generation will understand. Who knows they may team up with the no longer functioning search engine CUIL for data(if it isn't already sold). After all, they had the claimed to have the largest number of indexed pages.

Some people are speculating the age of Facebook to be between 2-5 years. If this theory goes right. We are looking at an unprecedented world where there wouldn't be anything except them.

Facebook will eventually become the Internet.

Curious case of .UK domains.

Ever since the Nominet announced the release of .UK domain for public use. There was an unprecedented rush to claim these domains. Some were trying to protect their existing brand name and the others were trying to lay hand on anything and everything they can register.

The biggest problem though is that no one really knows how the registration works for this ccTLD. Domains were expected to be released on 10th June 2014. However, alot of the domains are still waiting to be registered. There is another catch. Domain owners who have already registered a .co.uk, .org.uk, .me.uk, .net.uk, .ltd.uk or .plc.uk. They have the right to claim the equivalent .UK domain by 10th June ..... 2019. Yes, that's correct. It is 2019.

There is one more thing. If a domain is registered by a company and later they fail to renew it. The domain can be registered by anyone. I don't understand why would Nominet keep the domain from being registered for 5 years and allow the domain to be publicly available if there is an unsuccessful renewal.

Don't really understand the point of all that.

Internet's new .COMs are here. Will the real .COM Die?

I was born in the year when the first domain or the website name as we say was registered. Ever since, more than anything else, I would put a .com in the end to find out something on the internet. That was a time when Google was still in a crib and Yahoo was the big daddy. It has always been the .COM domains in my search.

There was an occasional odd one out though a .NET, .IN, .ORG would creep in from somewhere but it was always the .COMs.

Moving  forward.  It’s  now time for the Internet to reincarnate. Launch of the new gTLD domains changed the world of website names overnight. It literally challenged the very existence of the beloved .COM domains. Since, the inception of new gTLD domains like .Web,  .SEXY, .LOVE, CATHOLIC,  .SURGERY etc. They have been eating up the number that once belonged to a simple .COM domain. Several have been released for public and several others will be releasing shortly replacing .COM with something more meaningful.

Realistically, It’s a great move and it gives the end user an ability to see ahead. To know what would be the content in a site without having to check is an achievement in itself. Thanks to the investors. Parents would now be able to get a headsUp on what they would be opening in front of their kids and save themselves from the embarrassment of opening up a sleazy site.

For now, all looks good. The one question that one may have is the likability to these domains. Will our generation embrace this change who is so much into selling the keyword domains at an obnoxious price. Will the .COM domains have a way around the corner or will it submit itself into defeat against these young guns.