Google Will Not Clone Facebook
November 12, 2010
“Report: Google Social Efforts Won’t Compete with Facebook” told me what I concluded. Here’s the key passage that I circled with my trusty old school yellow Magic Marker:
“We’re not working on a social network platform that’s just going to be another social network platform,” Hugo Barra, Google’s head of mobile product, said during the Monaco Media Forum. “We do think that social is an ingredient for success for any app going forward, search and advertising being probably the best two examples that I would mention. So that’s how we’re thinking about the problem.” Rumors were circulating over the summer that Google was building a social network called “Google Me” thanks to a tweet from Digg co-founder Kevin Rose and a blog post from former Facebook executive Adam D’Angelo. However, no Google-backed Facebook killer has been announced.
Let’s assume this is accurate.
I was wondering if anyone else got a pesky e-mail from Google. In “Google Buzz Was An $8.5-Million Disaster. Why Can’t Google Do Social?” , we learn simply that Internet empires like Google can invade millions of people’s privacy and get away with nothing but a slap on the wrist.
It seems like the hot trend right now for tech companies that make privacy mistakes is to settle with a big payment to set up an educational fund.
Eight and a half million dollars is chump change to a corporation as big as Google. And to top it off, they’ve not had to pay out anything to anyone who was affected by the problem. Google Buzz has assaulted the privacy of its users, now they are responsible for ‘educating’ users about privacy on the internet. Does this NOT make sense to anyone else?
Hello! Wasn’t it the users who discovered their privacy was being invaded? Google didn’t catch that one right off the bat.
With each piece of evidence, the Google makes it becomes increasingly clear to me that the Math Club is socially challenged.
Leslie Radcliff, November 12, 2010
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