Social networks still have a chance to grow

Matt Britting, British chief executive of Google

According to foreign media reports, Matt Britting, the UK's chief executive, said in Monday that other social networks still had opportunities to grow, in addition to Facebook. However, Brittain did not deny that Google will launch a social services Google me at the end of the year.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph in Monday, Brittain said the global market was strong enough to withstand more than one social network. "Facebook is definitely a phenomenon, but there are other social networks that have been successful," he said. Our social networking site Orkut in India and Brazil, while Bebo was very successful in other markets. I think what we're going to see is that the Internet will become a more social place and people will become more social in the context of social networking.

On Twitter, the founder of Digg, Kevin Ross, said in Saturday that Google would launch a social networking service Google Me that competes with Facebook, according to reliable sources. Insiders believe that if the news is true, then Google's decision is somewhat strange. Google has launched Google Buzz, which is considered one of Twitter's biggest rivals, but is underperforming. In addition, if Google launches new social networking services, the prospect of Google's existing social networking services Orkut will be fraught with uncertainties.

Adam D ' Angelo, the former chief technology officer at Facebook and Quora founder of the American question and answer website, Adam De Angelo that Google will indeed launch Google me social services in the near future. De Angelo said the launch of the new service is that Google realizes that its buzz social services market is far from enough, and wants to launch a full-featured, state-of-the-art social networking product. The product is intended to challenge Facebook.

In an interview in Monday, Brittain on whether Google would launch Google me social services. He said he would not comment on "any kind of hearsay or speculation", but Brittain did not acknowledge the message as false. "Google will announce new products and I will not disclose them now," Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said in Thursday. "This further confirms the rumors that Google may be launching Google me.

Google launched Google Buzz earlier this year, which was once considered a big competitor to Twitter, but is underperforming. Google Buzz will release the most closely-connected e-mail contacts, raising controversy over whether the service violates user privacy.