Filed under: News, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Social Software, Web
Clearly Google has Microsoft and Yahoo! shaking in their boots right now. While more often than not companies try not to bring attention to what their competitors are working on, fear can drive them to speak out when they might otherwise more wisely hold their tongue.
Google's announcement yesterday of a new social networking feature called Buzz that is integrated into Gmail prompted Yahoo! to comment on their Twitter account (how's that for irony?) "Two years after #Yahoo! launched #Buzz, Google follows suit. Check out the original: http://buzz.yahoo.com/"
Similarly, Microsoft aired their sour grapes with the following statement about Google Buzz:
Busy people don't want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation. We've done that. Hotmail customers have benefited from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.
You'd think Microsoft could point to something better than (shudder) Hotmail when trying to claim supremacy over Google.
No word about Buzz from Facebook yet, but that just shows that they're more -- let's use the word "confident" -- about their place in the social networking space than Microsoft or Yahoo! are.
Microsoft and Yahoo! bitch and moan about Google Buzz originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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