Facebook – there’s no better way to catch up with your friends online and squeeze a few minutes’ Internet gaming into your lunch break. MySpace is so 2006 and who’s even on Friendster these days? Facebook is certainly the most popular social networking platform of our time – but Google search could be changing all that in the near future. The gargantuan Google search engine company may be developing their own social network to compete with sites like Facebook.

There’s no denying that Google web search is huge. The multi-coloured text logo is instantly recognisable around the globe, Google marketing can send a company’s popularity and profits skyrocketing and the Google search engine is so dominant that the verb “Google” has even been added to the Oxford English Dictionary. If you want the low-down on anything, anyone or anywhere… just Google it! Google search tools like Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Product Search are all you need to find comprehensive information online. American company Google Inc. owns 160 domain names internationally, and the search engine remains the go-to search option for Internet users worldwide. And of course… can any of us honestly say we haven’t performed Google searches on ourselves?