Facebook Vies To Become Your Homepage – And Why That’s A Big Deal

<i>When you can tap your entire social graph for answers to your queries, sites like Facebook have the ability to push aside search engines like Google as the first site that springs to mind when people think about surfing the WWW to find information, connect to other people, communicate with friends, and so on.</i><p>Am I somehow connecting to the wrong Facebook or something? Because whenever I log in all I get is dull status updates from people I somewhat know.

"But for many people, social networking sites are slowly taking over at least part of the role of search engines, which is mainly to retrieve information."<p>Don't agree, they are rather take part of the role of tv.

Facebook is Microsoft's trojan horse to win two wars: search and mobile. Microsoft is a major investor in Facebook and thus far has been losing both search and mobile to Google.<p>With Facebook as the home page, Microsoft becomes the de facto search engine for millions of people because Bing is already integrated into Facebook.<p>Also, with more people communicating via Facebook mobile, Microsoft slowly but surely inches its way to winning the war on mobile through integration with Facebook on mobile devices.

I don't use a homepage at all, when I launch my browser it takes me to a blank page and I request what I want directly. I really don't like to be distracted by a default home page.

Facebook as stated they are not making a phone, but they didnt say they were not making a phone OS like Android. Im thinking a Facebook mobile OS makes sense. THose you want to talk(voice, text, IM, pics, etc) with are on your facebook now and they just released their new social inbox. This is all speculative but just maybe they'll do this?

I think though we are moving away from the homepage though, I prefer how chrome displays the 8 most visited pages upon opening.

I can already ask my friends if I want information that they may have. More over, there are at least a dozen ways I can do so in a medium that's not littered with daily horoscopes, stupid quizzes, Farm Mafia Mob Zombie Fish Wars, and photos of pets from people I barely knew in high school. Search engines are for things my friends don't know, or for those times when I don't want to <i>bother</i> those friends, because I know they're busy with more important things to do than sit on Facebook all day long.

I haven't used a homepage since browsers implemented the save tabs feature.