Google Wants to Facebook Friend You - TIME

News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue May 13, 2008 8:17 PM EDT

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Upping the stakes in its ongoing battle with the popular social network, Google announced today that it was getting into the "social plumbing" business — giving every website a way to add a limitless number of applications and a means for those sites' users to communicate among themselves.

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