Google has taken the wraps off its latest social network known as Buzz.
The service – integrated directly with its e-mail service Gmail – allows users to post status updates, share content and read and comment on friends’ posts.
The site pitches Google directly against rival networks such as Facebook, which has amassed nearly 400 million users since its launch in 2004.
Buzz will try to capitalise on the number of regular Gmail users, which is currently around 170 million people.
Google held a major search product event today. Among many incredible new products and features displayed was real-time search (fresh search results pushed live to the search results page, with a pause button above that section of the page)
Results are coming in from freshly published web pages, Tweets, MySpace updates and shockingly, Facebook public profiles. Check out the demo video above.
Want to see real-time results for any query right now? Go to http://google.com/trends and click on any of the hot topics on that page. Replace the search query in that page’s URL with a new search term and if real time results are available, you’ll be able to see them.
Highlights from the recent Google music launch event.
Find out more here http://www.google.com/landing/music/
As we posted yesterday it has now been officially announced that Microsoft and Yahoo are to join forces to take on Google.
Microsoft’s search engine will power the Yahoo website and Yahoo will in turn become the advertising sales team for Microsoft’s online offering.
Yahoo has been struggling to make profits in recent years.
But it rebuffed several takeover bids from Microsoft in an attempt to go it alone.
“This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo, our users, and the industry. And I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of internet innovation and development,” said Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz.
The deal became possible after Yahoo’s co-founder Jerry Yang stepped down as chief executive of the company.
Source | BBC
Facebook continues to grow and has recently reached another groundbreaking milestone, with 250 million worldwide active users.
The announcement was made in an official blog article from Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s news section. Facebook continues to dominate the Social Networking world, particularly as it recently overtook MySpace in the US for user figures. Here in the UK, Facebook has long been the most popular social network and now has over 19 million active users in the UK alone.
The video shows how Facebook expanded and where in the world it is mostly used.
Source: Facebook
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