Gmail is the third most popular web-based email in the world, with 176.5m unique visitors in December, based on statistics from comScore, which ranks Microsoft's Hotmail number one, with 369.2m unique visitors, and Yahoo Mail second with 303.7m.
Now Google has launched a new tool...Google Buzz that will alow the users of Gmail to share their feelings with each other...which means Google is taking social networking Giants Facebook and Twiiter head on by doing this.
Google Buzz allows the users to write their own status messages which the other users can see and it also allows the users to make their own Profile Pages which can be seen not only by friends but the entire web if so desired. It also allows users to post links like videos from YouTube or pictures from Picasa. Another advantage is that the replies to the status updates will be directly sent to the Inbox saving time shuffling a lot of browser windows and collecting social feeds from Twitter and Flickr all into one place.
Google will also introduce its unique Ranking System here (which is what makes it Search Engine so sucessful). Ranking is the idea of using iterative algorithm which corresponds to the principal eigenvector of the normalized link matrix of the web to determine the individual ranking of the site. This in the context of Buzz would mean that updates of friends that have been commented and "liked" by others would be flagged up and hence would be deemed more meaningful than the updates where someone saying what they had for lunch.
Buzz still has some drawbacks however, like its current inability toconnect to Facebook and the status messages posted on the buzz can be 'tweeted' to the followers but the followers' replies cant be seen on the buzz.
But these arent insurmountable problems and given Google's commitment to excellence,the buzz is surely going to go places.
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