Google games to counter Facebook Farmville and Mafia Wars
Posted on 05. Aug, 2010 by admin in Business
Is there a way a href=”http://www.google.com/”>Googlecan beat the hell out of its competitor a href=”http://www.facebook.com/”>Facebook?
Games are the answer wonders Google to break loose into the world of social networking. The giant search engine, Google, attempts to go past the poor initiatives it had taken initially.
Facebook definitely rules the social networking arena, and industry pundits believe that it will be possible for Google alone to challenge and/or play bigger than the Facebook; however, by luring game designers and developers.
So there, Google is up for it and seeking talent to take on the drive forward. In fact, Google is assaying to partner with the gaming giants and work on enhancing Google’s presence on the world wide web.
It should be noted here that free games is the most popular activity done by Facebook users. Mafia Wars or FarmVille involve interaction with other users, and among 500 million users a lot of them do play these games.
However, in the wake of changes by Facebook gaming companies are unable to do business with the site and they are turning now to Google and looking at what the Internet giant has to offer them.
Google, definitely has been struggling to rein its supremacy in the social media. The flops by Google Buzz and Google Wave as well as mean performance by Orkut prompted Google to look at gaming and game developers and Zynga might well support Google to develop some games potentially addicting enough for the gamers to come to Google ditching the a href=”http://www.facebook.com/”>Facebook.
