In rather unearthed news, rumors are surfacing regarding Google’s refreshed attempt to Topple Facebook. The news definitely confirms the fact of the search engine sites losing their ground gradually to the Social-networking sites. Rumors suggest the new service from Google is christened as “Google Me”.
Digg CEO, a day earlier had tweeted about the rumor, which was later removed, but was enough to buzz the online Community. Former Facebook CTO Adam D’ Angelo had also pooled in his thoughts on his Q&A service “Quora”, and said that Google Me is real and is aimed at Facebook. He further added that he has pieced together the information from very reliable sources.
Google already has a Social-networking service “Orkut”, which isn’t much of hit except in few countries like India, and is also losing its ground there to Facebook and Twitter. Google earlier this year launched Buzz certainly aimed at the fast growing Twitter, but failed to garner enough users. Google currently hosts various services like Google Profiles, Latitude and Google wave along with Orkut and Buzz which offer Social networking at various levels. With “Google Me” it is rumored to club all this services under one roof, to provide it a competitive edge above Facebook and Twitter. It may also rope in YouTube, BlogSpot and Picasa on to the same platform.
Getting these services under a common roof, won’t be much difficult but to build a Social networking platform stronger than Facebook, will require a lot more. Even Facebook wasn’t an overnight success and it took it years to get where it is currently. But, with recent Market-researches indicating Social-networking sites gaining more visits than Search engines, Google perhaps has no option but to go for it, has it is still driven by Volume based Add revenues. Will Google be able to topple the Facebook with its latest attempt or not, certainly depends upon the level of user Interface it would offer to its users and to the extent the users are ready to offer the “Me” in “Google Me”. But for now, with a tough Competition scheduled ahead, the Users are sure to have a better choice. I hope Facebook is already on its Dashboard, and did I Bing about Microsoft here?
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