{"id":17852,"date":"2018-10-10T05:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17852"},"modified":"2018-10-10T05:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T05:22:55","slug":"google-tried-to-beat-facebook-and-all-it-got-was-facebooks-headache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17852","title":{"rendered":"Google tried to beat Facebook and all it got was Facebook&#8217;s headache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Google desperately wanted to copy Facebook&#8217;s success on social media. Instead it may be left with a version of one of Facebook&#8217;s biggest failures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">In 2011, as Facebook was rapidly approaching the <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/10\/04\/technology\/facebook-billion-users\/index.html\">one-billion-active-user<\/a> milestone, Google made a last-ditch effort to beat back its online rival with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/TECH\/web\/06\/30\/google.plus.invites\/index.html\">launch of a rival social network<\/a> called Google+. The service unmistakably resembled Facebook, though with some novel additions, including more customized sharing options and group video chats. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Seven years later, Google+<strong> \u2014<\/strong> the also-ran social network that Google was never willing to let die <strong>\u2014<\/strong> is finally being moved to the company&#8217;s trash folder, joining previously abandoned social products like Google Reader, Wave, Buzz and Orkut. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Google desperately wanted to copy Facebook&#8217;s success on social media. Instead it may be left with a version of one of Facebook&#8217;s biggest failures.In 2011, as Facebook was rapidly approaching the one-billion-active-user milestone, Google made a last-ditch effort to beat back its online rival with the launch of a rival social network called Google+. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}