Google presented a competitor to Facebook and Twitter - Google Plus

The American Internet giant Google made a decisive attempt to expand its presence on the Internet by launching the Google Plus on Tuesday, which is designed to squeeze the main "veterans" of this market - Facebook and Twitter.

Google emphasizes that the main advantage of their brainchild is advanced systems for protecting personal information. In addition, Google Plus offers inexperienced users more understandable privacy settings than competitors.
The branded function of the new social network promises to become a unique system for combining contacts - they form separate groups - the so -called "circles" (Circles), for each of which you can choose different rights of access to
information on your page.

As ITAR-TASS notes, there is something similar in the Russian social network VKontakte. However, in Google all this is supplemented by a simple, but not without a visual design style.

In general, the Google Plus page retains a classic design well known to Facebook users and characteristic of most social networks. The main elements here are a photo of the user profile and the news feed.

The strong side of the project can be traditional for Google resources Integration of services. So, Google Plus allows you to very quickly start a video conference with friends from the list of contacts.

The goal of entering and gaining a foothold in the social networks market was set on Google in April this year, after the post of executive director of the company was occupied by one of its founders Larry Page. Since then, the task of catching up and overtaking Facebook has become a priority for the Internet giant based
Park (California). Google, who owns the number one Internet search engine, believe that the company's position as the main “window” in the world of online information is at risk, because users spend more and more time on sites
Like Facebook and Twitter. It is they, according to many experts, will become the main source of information in the future.

Now Google Plus is in beta testing mode, and you can register on the social network only by invitation. However, users can leave their email address on the site , to which the notification from the developers about the full -fledged launch of the project will come.