Google Inc (GOOG.O) and Facebook brought out a variety of new social networking features on the back-to-back announcements on Tuesday, underlining the increased competition of Internet users.
Google has integrated its search engine in its flagship three-month-old social networks - with the membership and is open to the public Internet - and expanded its "meeting places" video-chat feature to allow mobile use and broadcasting.
The company said on its official blog welcomed the gathering places role - in which up to nine people can connect and chat with a user in the video - will be available in camera-equipped smartphone works with its own Android software. Support for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) IOS devices "coming soon", he added.
And the user can now host an online broadcast this feature - a recording session and live streaming online public access. Black Eyed Peas front man will.i. am will host the first "air hangout" on Wednesday, Google said.
"Meeting places must keep pace with how they socialize in the real world, so today we're throwing in a single device that is always at his side: his mobile phone," senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said in the blog .
Meanwhile, Facebook said it was the introduction of a new "symbol" in the pages of its users, providing real-time notifications of what their friends are doing in the service. Facebook also renewed power the main news service to mark important points - such as a new baby announcement - for Facebook users who have not logged on for a few days. Facebook has also changed the way photos are displayed on the site, increasing the size of the images that appear on a news source users.
Facebook is the world's No. 1 services social networking, with more than 750 million users. The company has launched a series of improvements to its service recently, many of which seem designed to match the features of Google used to take his rival social networking service, Google +.
Google did not say how many people had signed up for Google + so far, but confirmed the social network is open to all, whereas before it had been by invitation only. Analysts estimate that upwards of 25 million users have joined + Google since its inception.
The company also made its search engine are available in the social network. Users can search on Google + and get results not only in the network, but from the Internet worldwide.
Children's Google's social network, with the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a member, has met skepticism so far. Some are waiting to see if you can keep the fast pace of their first months.
If a creation CEO Larry Page - which some say better mimics the categorization instinctive Facebook friends that takes place in real life - is gone, will come at a crucial moment in its larger rival. Facebook is expected to go public in 2012.
"We're far from done, but with the improvements we've made so far we are ready to move from field testing the beta," said Gundotra.
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