Google opened the doors to Google+ yesterday. Can the search engine giant rival the power of Facebook with 750 million users compared to it's own 25 million users? Only time will tell. The only thing for sure is that this will create social network war.
It is already rumoured that Facebook may unveil a complete re-design of the current website at Facebook's F8 conference. There is also talk of a potential new music service, launching Facebook into more of a media platform. If Facebook do decide to become more media focused then this could be seen as a direct retaliation against Google's encroachment on their social network empire.
Google has always been hungry to dominate the web whilst maintaining it's in-house motto "don't be evil" (meaning, not to be corporate big heads). It competed for years with Microsoft, it displays images from other websites which has upset quite a few people, it collects news from around the world using algorithms and links to related articles (upsetting the newspaper world), not to mention privacy issues regarding Google street view, the list goes on and on.
A lot of people have conspiracy theories about Google. I, however, think without Google, the Internet would not be advancing as fast as it has been in the past few years. And I would like to see it take on Facebook and win as they are the ones to really push social networking to the limits.
Google me or Facebook me?
Written by Tom Hancock
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