{"id":27771,"date":"2011-06-28T22:11:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=27771"},"modified":"2011-06-28T22:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:12:55","slug":"google-launches-facebook-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/27771-google-launches-facebook-rival.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Facebook rival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet search giant Google launched its rival to Facebook on Tuesday, a new social networking service called Google+.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to  fix it,&#8221; Google&#8217;s senior vice president for engineering Vic Gundotra  said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to bring the nuance and richness of  real-life sharing to software,&#8221; Gundotra said. &#8220;We want to make Google  better by including you, your relationships, and your interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google+, located at plus.google.com, is currently being  tested by a small number of people, but Google said in a message on the  site that it &#8220;won&#8217;t be long before the Google+ project is ready for  everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unveiling Google+, Gundotra stressed the ability it  gives users to separate online friends and family into different  &#8220;circles,&#8221; or networks, and to share information only with the members  of a particular circle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Google+ project: A quick look\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwnJ5Bl4kLI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the criticisms of Facebook is that updates tend  to be shared with all of a user&#8217;s friends unless they&#8217;ve gone through a  complicated process to create separate groups.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not all relationships are created equal,&#8221; Gundotra  said. &#8220;So in life we share one thing with college buddies, another with  parents, and almost nothing with our boss.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is that today&#8217;s online services turn  friendship into fast food &#8212; wrapping everyone in &#8216;friend&#8217; paper &#8212; and  sharing really suffers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Google is the king of Internet search but the Mountain  View, California, company has failed to make inroads on the social  networking front, dominated by Facebook with its nearly 700 million  users and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s last major foray into social networking &#8212;  Google Buzz, launched in February 2010 &#8212; spawned a slew of privacy  complaints and led to a slap on the wrist for the company from the US  Federal Trade Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Under a settlement between the US regulator and Google  announced in March, Google is required to implement a comprehensive  privacy program and will be subject to independent privacy audits every  two years for the next 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet search giant Google launched its rival to Facebook on Tuesday called Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":27773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,167,35],"class_list":["post-27771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27775,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27771\/revisions\/27775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}