Clickbait at its worst.<p>Facebook leveraging its userbase to mimic snapchat stories and Google rolling out their feed on their mobile app to solve the Google Now vs Google Assistant dichotomy aren't really similar. Google trying to take on Social Giant behemoth by making an interactive non-social feed on their mobile app makes for a nice headline though.<p>Facebook did not invent pushing people towards their native apps by a long shot. Most websites with a native app urge their users to download apps for more engagement. Calling it a Facebook "feature" is laughable.
I have to say I was pretty disappointed at Google for pushing their "use the iPhone Gmail app" popup to me : They have plenty of data about my usages, and it was easy enough to figure out I never owned an iPhone, or accessed any of their services using an iPhone.
Somehow I am using more google than facebook (removed the damn bloated app that eats all the free space on my old phone). Subjectively Google just might succeed in things like Feed because Facebook is for situations where you want to know what the other guys around you are doing. Google is about what is happening generally like news or blog posts or announcements or anything interesting but not personal.<p>Can't beat Facebook at social network but at everything else Google can use similar features to solidify their market.
If this is really what Google is trying to do, it's pointless. Google can't stop Facebook when it already has 2bln users, plus WhatsApp and Instagram.<p>There's just no way Google can beat them at their own game.
After getting that update, I noticed that every news suggestion was something that interested me and that I'd actually read it. It was eerie, but sort of satisfying that it wasn't littered with sports or celebrity news or "feel good" stories like it once was.
My opinion on this would be simple. If Google want it to do, then it should do the way exactly Facebook did to snap, a pixel by pixel copy/paste. Also, besides facebook there is importance of having another social networking site, clearly google plus failed, now Google should do it on a new frame.