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Looking back on his decade as Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt said the company should have focused more on connecting people -- a hole that allowed the emergence of rival internet giant Facebook.
"Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way to figure out who people are. That system is missing in the internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier," Schmidt, now the executive chairman of Google, said in an interview with CNN.
"I think that's the area where I would have put more resources, developing these identity services and ranking systems that go along with that. That would have made a big difference for the internet as a whole."
Three weeks ago, the company rolled out Google+, the search giant's online social network, which Schmidt called "a partial answer" to Facebook. Schmidt would not predict whether Google+ would be a full success or not.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/07/20/google.chairman.interview/index.html?hpt=te_bn2
"Fundamentally, what Facebook has done is built a way to figure out who people are. That system is missing in the internet as a whole. Google should have worked on this earlier," Schmidt, now the executive chairman of Google, said in an interview with CNN.
"I think that's the area where I would have put more resources, developing these identity services and ranking systems that go along with that. That would have made a big difference for the internet as a whole."
Three weeks ago, the company rolled out Google+, the search giant's online social network, which Schmidt called "a partial answer" to Facebook. Schmidt would not predict whether Google+ would be a full success or not.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/07/20/google.chairman.interview/index.html?hpt=te_bn2
