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Another round of "blah, blah, blah....your social network sucks, blah, blah, blah ours is better" has kicked off between Google and Facebook.
Google’s new blunt public talk about Facebook and its purported flaws comes as Facebook is fighting back against a series of complaints from business owners, celebrities and other advertisers over how it distributes their posts. Google would clearly like to divert some of Facebook’s more than $3 billion in annual ad revenue into ads powered by its own social network, Google+. At the same time, Google’s overt criticism of a competitor highlights that it’s the runner up rather than the leader in social — at least at the moment. And it risks pushback from users who remember that Google, like Facebook, has stirred controversy over its plans to take personal information from social networks and leverage it for profit.