According to sources close with The Wall Street Journal, Google is currently in talks with several developers of popular online games to create a “broader” social-networking website that could compete with Facebook. Google recently took stake in Zynga Game Network Inc., one of the developers that is negotiating with.
It is uncertain when Google plans to launch the gaming offering, and the plans are not finalized, but sources close say that the games and its developers will have something to do with a social-networking project that the Mountain View, California company is working on.
Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt declined to comment, or confirm, the development of a new social-networking service or the social games that it would include, rumored to be called “Google Me”. “The world doesn’t need a copy of the same thing,” Schmidt said when asked if the new Google service would be anything like Facebook.
A spokesperson for Facebook said that the social-networking company wouldn’t comment or speculate on Google’s new venture, but said that Facebook has expected new efforts in the social-networking scene, and “looks forward” to the competition.
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