{"id":709,"date":"2010-09-20T08:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/?p=709"},"modified":"2012-06-21T03:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:02:44","slug":"%e2%80%9cgoogle-me%e2%80%9d-social-network%e2%80%a6-a-facebook-contender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/%e2%80%9cgoogle-me%e2%80%9d-social-network%e2%80%a6-a-facebook-contender\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGoogle Me\u201d Social Network\u2026a Facebook  Contender ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">News that <strong>Google<\/strong> is building a <strong>Facebook<\/strong> competitor have become more believable due to Google\u2019s CEO <strong>Eric Schmidt <\/strong>confirming the launch of the social application &#8216;<strong>Google Me<\/strong>&#8216; into their products including email, online search, videos and maps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The proclamation of this launch (in fall this year) comes at a very significant time. With Facebook having suffered badly from recent privacy issues, chances are that Google Me could become an immense concern for Facebook.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google desires that &#8216;Google Me&#8217; should\u00a0 not be just another accumulation to the product catalogue but will target at combining all their previous \u2018not so winning\u2019 social networking attempts like Orkut, Buzz and Profiles into a victorious social network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Google CEO,Eric Schmidt recently stated at the Google <strong>Zeitgeist Conference <\/strong>held at Scottsdale, Arizona that \u201c<em>We\u2019re trying to take Google\u2019s core products and add a social component.<\/em>&#8221; He also added &#8220;<em>If you think about it, it\u2019s obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, we also need to wait and watch as to how Google can get such huge Facebook devotees to abandon Facebook and turn towards Google Me instead !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News that Google is building a Facebook competitor have become more believable due to Google\u2019s CEO Eric Schmidt confirming the launch of the social application &#8216;Google Me&#8216; into their products including email, online search, videos and maps. The proclamation of this launch (in fall this year) comes at a very significant time. With Facebook having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,62],"tags":[114,63,94,110,113,115,111,112,116],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engine","category-social-networking","tag-buzz","tag-facebook","tag-google-2","tag-google-me","tag-orkut","tag-profiles","tag-social-network","tag-social-networking-2","tag-zeitgeist-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1792,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/1792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/news-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}