Tight rivalry between Google and Facebook. by Milota Sidorova

Google and Facebook have been gradually changing into the rivalry mood and the ambitions to kick off the other one is more and more significant. First of all, both are very important and powerful networks that have been cooperating for some time. But until now. Today both CEOs Facebook's Zuckerberg and Google's Schmidt are going to have a speech at expected technology Web 2.0 conference. Although three days event is full of internet services provider, the focus was put on those two. The competition can turn into something really interesting – Google that owns Gmail, one of really sucessful email services is lacking any sucessful social feature – although it has ! its Buzz, the response wasn't that strong. Facebook has been seen in the bad light due total lack of privacy and inability to create its own email. But this is going to change, at least according to official news. Facebook is expected to announce the beginning of its email service. Some, perhaps too ambitious critics call it „Gmail killer“. So far, both sides have declined to comment it. The competition is significant in more directions – last week Google blocked out a feature that enabled Facebook to import data from gmail account and it announced it was going to rise salaries 10 percent up for its IT workers. According to rumors it should prevent Google employees from leaving the company for Facebook. So it seems the fight for any kind of source including employees has begun. But Facebook has lost one of its key IT figures on Friday. What seems so interesting is that the person is Paul Buchheit, one of cofounders of Google's Gmail. Buchheit was working o! n gmail between 1999 and 2006. Now he's leaving for Y Combinat! or a com pany providing internet services start-ups.

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by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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