Now this is some interesting news coming in. Google and Facebook who predominate two different spheres of the World Wide Web might just compete on the same space if we are to believe a new rumor.
Evidently, Google is designing a major debut into the social networking space with a new service that will be known as
Google “Me”. So far, the two had been competing in the “most visited websites” category in U.S.A. In March 2010, Facebook became the first internet site to outperform Google in terms of the number of visitors. On the global presence though, Facebook has still someway to go to compete with Google at least on the “most seen” parameter.
However, it would not be entirely right to say that Google has not been in the social networking sector. As a matter of fact, Google’s own Orkut still happens to be the most used social networking website in countries like Brasil and India – although it has recently lost some luster. Earlier this year, Google set in motion its “Buzz” service which was entangled in secrecy matters and didn’t actually get to a flying start.
This latest rumor regarding Google Me was first brought out by Digg founder Kevin Rose who tweeted : “Ok, umm, huge rumor : Google to launch Facebook competitor very soon “Google Me”, very credible source.” .
Interestingly, neither Kevin nor Google has said anything about this service after the tweet.
Update on June 28th: ” Former Facebook Executive Adam D’Angelo Confirms New Google Social Networking Effort ”
Latest update : “Former Facebook CTO: ‘Google Me’ Is Real, And It’s Gunning For Facebook“
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