Google and MySpace: A Visionary Alliance

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If you believe their own press puffery. Still, it's interesting watching the die being cast.

(An explanation of my title reference. I remember seeing those ads and laughing.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

does this mean their search engine is going to stop sucking so badly?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

"Close to 11 percent of all traffic to Google.com from U.S. Web users comes from the MySpace domain"

that is NUTS

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

Page 3 of the WIRED interview with Rupert Murdoch (August issue):

One obvious option is to strike an exclusive deal with Google or Microsoft to replace the site’s current (generic) search function with one provided by Google or Microsoft. (That alone could be worth every penny News Corp. paid for the site.)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

That wasn't something he said, by the way. But it proves this was an obvious move (but they're still looking into other ways to turn MySpace into something profitable, of course).

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I always thought Googlezon would come first.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:46 (twenty years ago)

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