Google Creating an online dating service?
This is still in the rumor-mill area of internet gossip, but it seems that Google is starting to collect online internet profiles of people.
The reason that this seems important is that in order for a romance site to work, you have to have a huge number of profiles already in place before the launch in order for people to be attracted to the site in the first place. ZDNet has more:
While Google’s latest April Fools “joke” presented an “unfathomable” Google Romance product, Google undoubtedly has its sights set on competing, for real, against online dating and business networking services such as Match.com, eHarmony, LinkedIn…
A lot of critics are claiming that Google is spreading itself too thin, and not focusing enough on their new products before launching a new set of products, and they’re slowly drifting further and further away from search. From all these new services, it seems that they’re turning into a Yahoo, which focuses a lot of time on keeping its readers on its site, rather than leading them away from it.
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