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  • A photo of Google's headquarters, known as the Googleplex, featuring an Android robot (known as the bugdroid) in Mountain View, California.
    In Google: Social networks and Google+

    Google was late to recognize the popularity and advertising potential of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Its first attempt to create a social network, Google Buzz, started in 2010 and closed less than two years later. Among several problems, the network was…

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