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Google+ Opens Up, Takes Fight to Facebook

Published September 21, 2011

| Reuters

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Sept. 21, 2011: The Google website invites all users to join the company's new social network, Google+, which is finally open for all comers.

Google and Facebook trotted out a variety of new social networking features in back-to-back announcements on Tuesday, underscoring their intensifying competition for Web surfers.

Google integrated its flagship search engine into its 3-month old social network -- with membership now open to the Internet public -- and expanded its "Hangouts" video-chat feature to allow mobile use and broadcasting.

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