it seems like maybe a more reasonable conclusion to draw is that the search feature is still being tested and tweaked quietly, and as such facebook's press office isn't hitting the gas as hard on getting it media attention as it is on the professional services page. There isn't necessarily a 1:1 correlation between what they send out to journalists and what's reported, but there certainly is one.
Facebook's PR team did zero outreach on the professional services page. It was live for a month before a Social Media Manager at Acodez IT Solutions stumbled on it and blogged about it.
Easily one of the best articles I've read on Medium or for free online in a long time. Funny and in-depth analysis of incumbent competition with great supporting evidence.
Other comments here on HN are about the forced analogy or verbosity of the article but I think the point was to be entertaining and insightful. And I think it was artfully executed.
Medium has more variance than it used to. Early on articles, like this one, where the author knew what they were talking about dominated. They are still there but now that there's a plurality of articles written as early attempts at SEO or personal branding or about discoveries from an "endless September" of entrepreneurship, such articles are less frequent.
I think the bigger take-away here is the connection between media pronouncements and stock prices. It's a nice reminder that anyone with a good lawyer and writing skills can tank a stock for a profit way too easily. I've always been for reforms in valuation approach that reduce risk of this. Especially given that we know companies pull crap like this sometimes to cause that exact effect. They're always tricking us for market share or whatever. So, why trust it by default?
Yelp killer? Let me know when Facebook has a dedicated app on your smartphone that doesn't require login which searches for businesses in a map view, with pictures, ratings, and reviews.
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Thanks for posting the link!