Google Exec Says Facebook Overshares

Google Exec Says Facebook Overshares 


Google's arch of amusing had some aciculate words for Facebook while speaking Wednesday at a tech conference, area Google co-founder Sergey Brin aswell showed up as a abruptness guest.

Vic Gundotra, Google's top controlling for amusing products, and Brin talked mostly about the company's Google+ amusing arrangement during a altercation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.

"We wish to do amusing in a way that is added like absolute life," Gundotra said. "So I anticipate you're traveling to see us demography a actual privacy-centered approach."

Conference adjudicator John Battelle asked Gundotra what he anticipation of "the accessible amusing graph" -- that is, Facebook.

"There is a acumen why every anticipation in your arch doesn't appear out of your mouth," Gundotra replied. "We do not accept in oversharing. We anticipate curation matters."

Brin alleged himself "not a actual amusing person," but -- shocker! -- "Google+ I instantly begin compelling."

Brin talked up Google+'s "Circles" feature, in which the network's 40 actor users can put their access into altered groups and accept with whom they'll allotment their activity.
"At aboriginal I begin Circles complicated, but now I adulation them," Brin said.

But not anybody loves Google+. Battelle asked about a leaked memo, acquaint in Google+ itself, in which aggregation architect Steve Yegge accidentally acquaint accessible complaints about the amusing arrangement and how it was launched -- and Google's administration style.

"I mean, we never like to see that," Gundotra said. "But it gave humans a appearance of what we do internally. Within the Google family, we are actual honest. And analytical about our efforts."

Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) didn't blaze Yegge, Gundotra said, abacus that the aggregation took the attitude that "the alfresco apple got a blink at what it's like to plan at Google."

Brin backward mostly quiet on the subject. "I didn't accomplish it accomplished the aboriginal 1,000 pages myself," he laughed.

Brin's new role: Brin, who stepped down from his role as Google admiral in January and is now artlessly "co-founder," said he's been blessed in his new atom and enjoys the adventitious to analyze "more abstruse work."

Brin accustomed that some of Google's "products and casework can assume broadcast brandwise. But we've consistently run the aggregation as 'let a thousand flowers bloom.' But already [they] do bloom, you wish to put calm a articular bouquet."

An admirers affiliate asked whether Google's action will change if and if the Motorola Mobility (MMI) accretion goes through, but Brin ducked the question, deckling to animadversion while authoritative approval of the accord is still pending.


source : cnn.com