Google Enters the Ring for Social Smackdown, Round 2

[TechNews]

 Google took a second stab at social networking Tuesday with the launch of Google+, a program designed to interactively connect users and challenge worldwide social networking king Facebook. The search engine giant failed with its first attempt at an online social network, last year's Google Buzz, which encountered difficulties in cracking the crowded social scene and was sharply criticized for what some users saw as a lack of privacy safeguards. Google is hopeful that this time around it'll be able to take a bigger step into the social networking marketplace.