Google appears to like crushing the dreams of soon-to-be-public tech companies.
First, Google decided to take on Groupon with the rollout of its own local deals-of-the-day service. And now Google takes another swing at the social network game dominated by Facebook.
The search giant announced a service called“Google+” that promises the Web search people know and love, plus updates of what your friends are doing, thinking, photographing and sharing.
If that sounds like Facebook, well, yes. Google has taken various steps to try to meld the “I want to know what my online friends are doing” traits with the mostly impersonal world of Web searching. (But GigaOm said Google+ is more of a threat to Skype than it is to Facebook.)
According to the website, right now Google+ is in trial mode with a limited number of people.
“We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward,” Google executive Vic Gundotra told TechCrunch. “Our online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets — or into being completely public.”
First, Google decided to take on Groupon with the rollout of its own local deals-of-the-day service. And now Google takes another swing at the social network game dominated by Facebook.
The search giant announced a service called“Google+” that promises the Web search people know and love, plus updates of what your friends are doing, thinking, photographing and sharing.
According to the website, right now Google+ is in trial mode with a limited number of people.
“We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward,” Google executive Vic Gundotra told TechCrunch. “Our online tools are rigid. They force us into buckets — or into being completely public.”
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