Taking on Facebook, Internet search giant Google today unveiled its version of a social networking service called “Google Plus” as a part of efforts to garner a share in the lucrative social networking space that has so far been dominated by the Mark Zuckerberg-led popular site.
Promising to bring “real-world interactions” and “real-life sharing” online, Google Plus lets users post photos, messages, comments and other content from selected groups of friends.
“Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools,” Vic Gundotra, Google's Senior vice-president for Engineering, said in a blog post. It said its new service aims to “fix” the “broken” and “awkward” way people interact online.
Through Circles, Google targets Facebook's features in which a user's information is shared by default with a large number of his or her friends, including their work colleagues and acquaintances, rather than only their close personal friends. Google said people want to connect with only certain people at certain times, while online, we hear from everyone all time.”
Google's new service will also let users video chat with numerous friends simultaneously.
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