Google announced the closing of Google Buzz social service, launched less than two years ago and ascompetition with Twitter and Facebook
When launched, Buzz was supposed to be the one of the bases of Google's social platform, and is alsoincorporated into almost - immediately the company's email service - Gmail. Its aim was to share contentwith your friends, like Twitter and Facebook updates service. Has been the launch, there were a number ofprivacy issues, and over time the service failed to seize significant market share, despite its combinationGmail.
The service joins another social failure of Google, Wave, also was canceled in August 2010. But despite that the service will be closed, users will still be able to access content that they created in Buzz using theTakeout service of Google, which aims to allow people to export their information to the various Googleservices.