Is Facebook’s new Graph Search Engine a danger to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp & Foursquare?

Is Facebook’s new Graph Search Engine a danger to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp & Foursquare, as according to these arguments?

Answer by Robert Scoble:

It is a threat, but only in the long-term if the others don’t react quickly.

I’ve used the new search engine quite a bit. Yes, it is disruptive to many of those competitors.

Just so you know where I’m coming from, I study how others use Facebook and have built several lists, including these:

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5 Critical Reasons for You & Key Employees to be Active on Social Media

Social Media business By Allen MacCannell

It’s important for modern employers to know whether or not their marketing employees and other managers should be spending much company time on social media. If you pay someone say $200 per day, you will want to know if $50 of that is well spent if they spend a quarter of their time posting, liking, +1ing, retweeting, favoriting, repining or asking, answering or upvoting questions on Quora.

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