Google Vs. Facebook

Google and Facebook are probably not competitors in the truest sense but they are definitely two sites which are always open on my desktop. A few weeks back, I was in Thailand on vacations and well I figured out that in terms of being smart, Facebook somewhat beats Google or GMail to be exact.

As soon as I logged into the two services for the first time from Thailand, here's what happened,

1. FaceBook took me to a new page stating that current location of my login is alot different from my usual login locations, so I need to submit my date of birth (along with year) in order to verify that I am actually Beenish. In contrast GMail must have noticed but didn't bother to raise the issue. So that's extra security measure on FB's part.

2. Once I verified, FaceBook then wondered if I know Thai and would like to switch to Thai, which is again a plus point. FaceBook was offering a functionality on the basis of demographic data, so now user can get advantage of it even if they didn't know about it. And no, GMail didn't mention anything.

3. The point where FaceBook completely outclassed GMail was the speed. As soon as FB identified my new location, it started fetching data from the servers near to that location and not servers near to Pakistan (my previous or default location.) All the members of my party complained that something is wrong with the internet, GMail is just not working and then I identified from the footer bar that GMail is trying to reach the servers which are near to Pakistan (or may have been dedicated for Pakistan)!!!! The service difference was just so obvious, GMail pages were taking like 5 minutes to load during which you are perfectly done with checking FaceBook and writing on a few walls.

So FaceBook is definitely smarter than Google or GMail to be exact :).