{"id":9972,"date":"2011-07-04T19:55:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2011-07-04T19:55:32","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T23:55:32","slug":"google-pivots-to-social-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/07\/google-pivots-to-social-networking","title":{"rendered":"Google Pivots To Social Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9973\" style=\"margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px;\" title=\"google\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google.png\" alt=\"Google\" width=\"275\" height=\"95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google.png 275w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google-150x51.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/google-250x86.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Google\u2019s pivot from search to social technologies occurred last week and my early impressions of their new service Google+ are very positive, particularly around their efforts on allowing you to  group your contacts. The giant global advertising company have many  years experience analyzing your search and email history, and often  display eerily accurate recommendations contextual based on your past  online activities and threads. Google\u2019s http cookies probably transmit  more about you than you realize &#8211; I can be reading a foreign newspaper  and see advertising content based on my past search activities and of  course Youtube (itself the second largest search engine by use in the world)\u00a0video has  pop up ads that make you realize you are being skillfully tracked.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"468\" height=\"296\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwnJ5Bl4kLI\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"468\" height=\"296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xwnJ5Bl4kLI\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At best Google&#8217;s entrance into the social graph market will bring more order, structure and findability to our lives. At worse the distopean world described in Evgeny Morozov\u2019s &#8216;The Net Delusion&#8217; just connected a few more dots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[133,69],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-community","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}