May 17, 2011 Update: This list of articles / references grows every day as I monitor news sources. The number of curated articles is now up to 26.
Instead of continuously updating the title and picture to reflect the number of resources, I'll focus on updating the hyperlinks. Enjoy!
Original Post Begins Here: My last two posts provided perspectives on why Facebook poses a threat to Google. If you want to understand why Google views Facebook as a competitive threat, this centralized research should makes things easier. Happy Reading!
How Facebook Threatens Google's Search Business
* CNN Technology: How Facebook Eclipsed Google in 2010
* Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — And Keep Google Out
* Singel-Minded: How Facebook Could Beat Google to Win The Net
* Ken Auletta's Googled Interview with Charlie Rose (links to Charlie Rose's Website)
* Fast Company Article: "Underdog Bing Talks Facebook Partnership, Google Rivalry
* My Blog Post Detailing the Ken Auletta-Charlie Rose Interview
* HubSpot's Inbound Internet Marketing Blog: Google Launches a More Social Search
* John Byrne's post from his C-Change Media Blog: What Really is Hurting Google – Social Search
* Wall Street Journal: How Google Wants Search to Be More Social
* Wired: Bing Bumps Facebook Options to Outsocial Google
* Search Engine Land: Bing Ups Ante in Social Search, Adds More Facebook "Likes" to Search Results
How Facebook Threatens Google as an Advertising Platform
* Mashable: Google Versus Facebook – Following the Money
* Fast Company: Facebook-Google Privacy PR Smear is a Campaign in an Epic, Escalating War
How Corporate Bureaucracy Makes Google Vulnerable
* The New Yorker Article by Ken Auletta: Why is Eric Schmidt Stepping Down at Google?
* Google's Facebook-Killer Slowed by Political Infighting
* Wall Street Journal: Chief Seeks More Agile Google
* Wall Street Journal: Power Shifts Atop Google
* New York Times: Google Shake-Up is Effort to Revive Start-Up Spark
* Search Engine Land: Was It Time for a Fresh Face? Thoughts on Larry Page as the New Google CEO
* Search Engine Land: Google Turns to Page — The Day Two Narrative
* Mashable Op-Ed: Why Google Needs Its Own Steve Jobs
How Facebook Threatens Google in The War for Talent
* The Wall Street Journal: Google to Give Staff 10% Raise
* The New York Times: Google Grows and Works to Retain Nimble Minds
* Information Week: Google Co-Founder Larry Page to Replace Schmidt as CEO
* The Street.com: Forget Apple — It's Google's Turn Now
* Fast Company: Engineers to the Valley – Pay Up
How Facebook Threatens Google in Mobile Services
* The Wall Street Journal: Facebook's Web of Frenemies