A battle heating up: Facebook hired a leading public relations firm to offer press release that negative articles about Google
If proof were needed that that Facebook sees its main competitor Google, here comes the proof: the social network admitted a public relations firm hired to carry communications entities offer negative stories about Google. Technology reporter Dan Lyons Newsweek reports in The Daily Beast's leading public relations firm Borson - Marstller offered to newspapers to investigate claims that Google enters user information. The company also tried to persuade a leading blogger to write a column against Google with a promise that he will be published in major media organizations such as The Washington Post Vahhapingeton Post. Blogger refused and published the e-mail correspondence between him and the company Initially suspected of Apple and Microsoft companies, but Lyons found evidence that on Facebook. Once introduced me on Facebook factors act explained the company admitted it in her belief that Google is acting does not preserve privacy in social media because it claims Google is trying to use information from Facebook for its services. Borson - Marstller (she admitted that Facebook is the client the client after the company admitted it herself) tried to convince reporters that turned Google's tool named "Social Circle" ("social circle") was built in discovering private information and produces stacks of information about millions of users. "The American people must be aware of the invasion of their private lives and Google catalogs upgrades their lives every minute of the day - without permission", said PR people. "The issue of privacy is a smoke screen"
Dan Lyons commentator that this was "Friday Fire" on Facebook, after Google tries unsuccessfully to compete with the social media arena, including unsuccessful attempt to launch the service "Google buzz." Google CEO Larry Page recently sent a memo to company employees called the subject of social media a primary target for the company, and conditioned his annual bonus successfully in this field. "The issue of privacy is a smoke screen. What really angers the Facebook is some information that pops up in Social Circle is the content coming from Facebook." In the past Google also blocked the ability to search Facebook members shared by entering an address the third of their Gmail service in the Friend Finder Facebook. Now it seems that the battle between two huge network grows and becomes very public.
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