Andre Yoskowitz
14 Sep 2010 16:21
Facebook has said today that Google is likely to launch a social networking site within six months.
Says Stephen Dolan, commercial director for Asia at Facebook (via Bloomberg): We expect Google to start "a fairly significant social media platform."
When asked for a time frame, Dolan said he expected "three to six months."
Google has been quickly moving towards a social networking launch since Facebook overtook the search giant in weekly traffic earlier this year.
"Facebook is the leader in the emerging Social Web and will face challenges from many players, both large and small," adds Ray Valdes, an analyst for research firm Gartner. "Google is Facebookâs most direct competitor, because Google is dominant in the previous generation of the Web, the content-centric Web."