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In case you hadn’t noticed, Google upgraded and minimalised its already minimal homepage this week. And that’s not all.
Google+ is the company’s most ambitious effort yet to keep Web users and advertising dollars from straying to social networking sites.
The Internet search giant, whose goal is to organize information, will try to organize people with a social networking service designed to rival the growing influence of Facebook Inc. The project, which Google has been quietly working on for months, has been championed by Google co-founder Larry Page, who, even before taking over as chief executive in April, made social networking a priority.
Google Making Another Attempt At Social Networking (LA Times)
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