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<h3><font>Is Google Jumping into the Social Media Waters?</font></h3>
<p><font><strong>Facebook, Twitter and Now Google!</strong></font></p>
<p><font>Just reported on CNN <strong>Google</strong> is Jumping into the <strong>Social Media</strong> Waters!</font></p>
<p><font><strong>Google</strong> is expected to plunge into the world of <strong>Facebook and Twitter</strong>, using its popular <strong>Gmail </strong>service to allow users to post status updates and items.</font></p>
<p><font>The <strong>search-engine</strong> giant, which recently tweaked its search function to allow easier access to <strong>social media</strong> results, has planned an event for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET at its California headquarters.</font></p>
<p><font>That comes a day after the Wall Street Journal quoted <strong><font>"people familiar with the matter"</font></strong> saying the feature would allow <strong>Facebook-style status updates</strong>, <strong>as well as pinging</strong> when users post something to affiliated sites like <strong>YouTube or Picasa.</strong></font></p>
<p><font>If it appears as described, it would be a sort of <strong>anti-Twitter</strong>, making a user's updates private by default, as opposed to open, as they are on the <strong>micro-blogging</strong> site.</font></p>
<p><font>The hands-down leader in the <strong>search engine</strong> world, <strong>Google</strong> has been branching out on projects that include its Nexus One smartphone -- the company's first foray into hardware marketing.</font></p>
<p><font>Late last month, <strong>Google</strong> announced that people could tweak their accounts to make results related to friends, co-workers and other members of their <strong>social networks</strong> appear above all other results.</font></p>
<p><font>The <strong>Social Search</strong> feature was introduced to a limited number of <strong>Google</strong> users last year and was made available to everyone in beta status on January 28.</font></p>
<p><strong><font>The change came with a hint of more things to come.</font></strong></p>
<p><font>"This is just a first step in our ongoing effort to ensure that <strong>Google Web search</strong> is always as <strong>social </strong>as the Web itself," the company said in an instructional video posted to its official blog. </font></p>
<p><font><strong>Google</strong> expected to plunge into social networking with <strong>Gmail</strong> status updates Search engine giant has planned a <strong><font>1 p.m. announcement for Tuesday</font></strong> Wall Street Journal quoted sources saying e-mail service will show status, other activity Move comes after <strong>Google</strong> tweaked searches to emphasize <strong>social networks</strong></font></p>

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