Me in Google Me

There has been rumor in the internet for a long time about Google me – Google’s super social network. It was according to a tweet from Digg founder Kevin Rose long back, Google is preparing to launch a rival social networking service called "Google Me." The Wall Street Journal and Reuters quoted Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying the company will integrate social networking elements to its services.

To see at Google’s history, Google has made a number of attempts to corner the market of Social Sites, with limited success at best. Back in February, Google had launched its Twitter competitor, Buzz, which was a big failure, and was roundly condemned for the perceived privacy issues surrounding that service's e-mail integration. Buzz was like Twitter meets Digg and not a true social networking site where you can spend virtual time with your friends. Google Profiles, Social Search being Google’s other properties of Google with some social networking features are not a called a success as well.

 Google’s Social Networking Site “Orkut” launched in 2004, was hit in India and Brazil. However, it hardly carries the same cache as other Google properties in other part of the world. More conservative companies would have cut their losses by now—but that thought process has never applied to Google, particularly when it comes to launching new properties. It is Google, Boss.

Google Me ‘the Facebook killer’ as said, was about to be launched in fall. It’s time now but there is no clue yet. News about Facebook is that for the last few weeks Facebook is in lockdown period and are coming out with redesign and added features in it. Facebook group has already created hype in the internet.

TO come back to Google Me, the service will introduce what Google calls “a social layer” into online search, video and Google Maps. I feel Google would do this by integrating all of its social sites into a single platform. By doing so Google Me may have initial user base of 200 million. This is speculation by the next wave for the reason of combination of Google and Gmail accounts would give such user base.

Facebook has already reached user base of 500 million and it is growing. The way Facebook is progressing, it might be considered foolish to start a project to compete against it and with a hope to succeed. However If Google Me gets it even half right, they could be the first real competition Facebook has seen in a long time.

So is Google Me getting Real?

When will I see Me in Google Me?

Suraj Sharma