Google in the Gears
Posted by Petrice Gaskin at May. 28, 2008
Google keeps making inroads and edging in on Facebook’s territory.
Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch reports that “MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.�
MySpace is using Gears to allow its messaging to be much more useful, by allowing users to search and sort their messages. The Gears integration will also make MySpace messaging much faster by localizing a lot of the processing on the users desktop; thus freeing up MySpace servers, and saving them a nice little chunk of change.
Arrington argues that Facebook’s messaging system suffers from the same ailments that MySpace’s used to have. He implies that Facebook would benefit from using Google Gears, but admits that it’s not likely given how Facebook and Google are battling it out for social network supremacy.
Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch reports that “MySpace has integrated Google Gears into its messaging system, which will back up all messages to a user’s local machine and allow for very fast search and sorting.�
MySpace is using Gears to allow its messaging to be much more useful, by allowing users to search and sort their messages. The Gears integration will also make MySpace messaging much faster by localizing a lot of the processing on the users desktop; thus freeing up MySpace servers, and saving them a nice little chunk of change.
Arrington argues that Facebook’s messaging system suffers from the same ailments that MySpace’s used to have. He implies that Facebook would benefit from using Google Gears, but admits that it’s not likely given how Facebook and Google are battling it out for social network supremacy.