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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

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While the erosion of the MySpace user base has been ongoing for years, the fact that it was purchased for $580 million just five years ago says all you need to know about the vagaries of online leadership. MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! But back to MySpace.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

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Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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RIP 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website

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Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. Facebook’s opening of the API to searches (and the subsequent inclusion of Facebook content in Google, Bing, Yahoo search results) blunts the historical searchability advantage of Web pages.

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