Google Inc (GOOG): Is Its Facebook Inc (FB) Nightmare Beginning?

This ain’t your father’s threat, Google
The great fear for Google is that it no longer faces a great plodding dinosaur like Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), a company that took years determining its path in search while Google gained an insurmountable lead. Instead, Facebook is dynamic, willing to take chances and pivot the entire direction of its business in a heartbeat. This isn’t a company afraid of failure; it’s one that’s young and taking risks.

Google’s great fear with Facebook began with search. However, with Google owning Android and banking on it as a key to the company’s success over the next decade, the greater threat than having Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) launch a search is what happens from within the Android ecosystem. Facebook knows that to live up to its full potential and head off threats, it needs to be more central to the mobile experience.

That puts it on a collision course with Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and its control of Android, but only at its own pace.

The article Is Google’s Facebook Nightmare Beginning? originally appeared on Fool.com.

Eric Bleeker, CFA, has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Amazon.com, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook, and Google and owns shares of Amazon.com, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

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