Comments on: Google Sees Games as a Weapon in Facebook Battle

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By: Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money

Silicon Valley & The Scent of Money — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:36:25 +0000

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Zynga Wants to be Big in Japan, Gets Cash from Softbank — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:41:57 +0000

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By: A S

A S — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:02:22 +0000

IMO, Google should not look at games as the secret sauce for its social networking venture. Google is supposed to be the expert at organizing information and making it accessible in useful ways. Google should focus its efforts in helping its users organize their personal information and share it with others at varying levels of granularity.

I don’t like to plug in my website in these comments, but in this case I think it is relevant. I described a fictitious Google product called Lifeline: http://tech.desiblogs.net/2009/04/notes-from-future-introducing-google.html . I believe that this product could easily become Google’s social networking platform.

By: Sanjay Maharaj

Sanjay Maharaj — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:17:49 +0000

The reason why Google has not had any or much luck on the social netwroking side of things is simply because it is seen as a search tool and not a place to hang out as much as Facebook and Twitter is seen as a place to stay in touch in an instant.
That is why I believe Google will always have a hard time competing for attention in the social networking space.
Their best case scenario is to make a bid for Facerbook or Twitter

By: lilywhite

lilywhite — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:58:48 +0000

Not sure this is going to change anything about how Facebook grows. Facebook puts Google at risk become of attention, as much as anything else. The games on FAcebook aren't going away.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:38:45 +0000

So if Google going social is a rival to facebook, is Google going social-gaming not just a rival to SecondLife?