Google Nov. 4 added a section to Friend Connect accounts that lets users share information about themselves for serendipitous discovery, as well as a private e-mail feature to let users connect with others they may meet online through Friend Connected Websites. Google also added an AdSense section to let Friend Connect site owners serve Google ads matched both to their site’s content and to the interests users publicly share on the site. Though not a social network like Facebook, Friend Connect is being used by more than 9 million sites, with over 500 million unique viewers of Friend Connected Web pages each month.
– Google’s Friend
Connect service now makes it easier for Website visitors to meet other
people through Friend Connected destinations, while enabling site owners to
make money by serving AdSense ads.
Leveraging its own OpenSocial APIs, Google launched Friend Connect in May 2008. Website
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