Google made quite a buzz about Google Buzz in trying to compete the likes of Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. Honestly it isn’t that big of a success. And while all this was supposed to have down, Digg’s founder, Kevin Rose tweeted a rumor. Google might be in the process of releasing it’s very own Facebook Competitor called Google Me.
Sounds more like you are forcing folks to search you on Google. Why would Google want this? In my humble opinion, it might just be a move to amalgamate its branched services into one, just like I had been predicting for well over a year now. Facebook started off as a social network and then introduced services, features like groups, fan pages, personalized profiles and now location. Head over to Google, it has all those services in the form of Buzz, Latitude for location and who can forget Google Wave? What Google would do is try and integrate these in Google Me and might just make it big.
Whatever Google does or brings out, challenging Facebook [forget about toppling it] is quite impossible, given the fact that the social network is pretty close to passing the 500 million mark. Plus people have generally not accepted Google’s role beyond a search engine, an email service provider [Gmail]. It’s going to be a tough hill to climb the social networking arena, provided that people are already spending more time on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc [around 15 percent of all Web traffic]. Whatever the case be, we can wish Google good luck.
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