#Google just announced their next social media venture: #Perspectives.
Perspectives is a tab that will showcase social media posts in their search results. This will give — you guessed it — “perspectives” on current events and other matters as well.
While Google is positioning this generating results from all social media, this also has massive implications for the #Fediverse.
I’ve been saying for a long time that if we Fediverse developers didn’t nail search soon, Google will eat our lunch.
Well, it looks like they’ve just set down at a table and are studying the menu right now — because I completely expect that the Fediverse will be present on that Perspective tabs, especially since the Fediverse is now generating 1 billion+ posts each month.
What is the next logical step for Google?
If I were putting on my Google product development hat, I’d push for full text search with near-instant results. This is very easy for Google to do. Their engineers could probably build it fast.
Meanwhile, the Fediverse is practically giving away Fediverse search to Google — Google is what most people use to find posts on the Fediverse right now.
Are we just going to allow Google to extend their search monopoly into the Fediverse, and without a fight too?