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Is Google Launching Own Social Networking Site?

Blogs report conflicting information on 'Google Circles'

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 14, 2011 3:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Google will soon launch a social network, blogs are saying, and it may be called Google Circles. The tech blog The Next Web first reported the news Friday, noting that the product would launch at Google’s I/O conference in May; ReadWriteWeb followed with an assertion that the new service would be announced at South By Southwest. Google knocked down the latter claim, but refused to “comment on rumor and speculation” about the service itself, the Telegraph reports.

Reports are conflicting: the founder of O’Reilly Media tweeted that he’d “seen Google Circles, and it looks awesome.” But at All Things Digital, Liz Gannes writes that no such product is “even under development.” One of the reported heads of the project told Gannes he “didn’t know what (the story) was talking about.” Meanwhile, at a developer event, Google insiders said the company isn’t launching a social network.

An emplyee works at the booth of U.S. company Google, at the CeBIT, one of the world's largest computer, electronics and information technology fairs, in Hanover, Germany, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011.
An emplyee works at the booth of U.S. company Google, at the CeBIT, one of the world's largest computer, electronics and information technology fairs, in Hanover, Germany, Monday, Feb. 28, 2011.   (AP Photo/dapd, Nigel Treblin)
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COMMENTS
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INCLIQ
Mar 15, 2011 8:18 PM CDT
Google Circles is no better than Facebook. Your private data is at risk on any 3rd party server. The solution is http://www.incliq.com where your data is never transmitted to INCLIQ servers, only across a P2P mesh to people you trust.
myflap.blow
Mar 14, 2011 4:41 PM CDT
as the CB radio makes another turn in it's grave...
dyna
Mar 14, 2011 4:17 PM CDT
Seems like Google tries to launch a social network every other year..

 
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