Google is the new way of our life?

A few months later Google tried to buy Twitter and did not succeed. A few days ago they started a new service, named Google Buzz witch is something like Twitter with one important exception.
Google Buzz is inside your mail box and it's one click away, you don't have to login to anything else, you don't even have to create an account. And to take your mind of the annoying thing to have to find your contacts and other people to follow, Google Buzz made the obvious. It found them for you. So even if you have never used it before, you were starting with 50 (or something) online friends, witch is a good thing for Google Buzz because now you don't have to do anything so the chances are that you will use it.
Some concerns about the safety of personal data were not serious. So, what if all your auto-followed friends in Google Buzz could saw all other auto-followed contacts? Who cares, the important thing is to start using Google Buzz and more importantly buzz about it!
Next thing Google is trying, is to get the Google Trends inside Google news. Another idea from Twitter... So what is the big plan for Google? Well it's simple. Google has no luck so far in the social networks. She is trying, but at the last moment it seems she is missing the target.
Google Wave (remember Google Wave?) was one of the many tries. Google Wave was (is it still around?) a social network - online collaboration tool with no connection no notification. If someone sent you something in Google Wave he or she would have to send you an e-mail also or contact you in any other way to open your Google Wave account and read it. Not very useful!
We think Google as a big company with a lot of money, with unlimited recourses. For all those years Google were the good guys fighting against the bad (Microsoft). But lately something is definitely wrong in the kingdom of "do no harm" company.
Google is brute forcing it's way in the social networks, creating similar, but not as good, services to existing ones, and then using it's leading position in the market to guide the users to it's own products.
Was that what we were accusing Microsoft to do?
- Charalampos Konstantinidis's blog
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