Google and Facebook, a Setback on Convergence

An article in the Wall Street Journal has stated that as as of friday, Google is removing the feature on facebook that allows facebook users to access their gmail account names. This information collecting was a huge success in the growth of Facebook, because people can find all of their gmail contacts on facebook with just their gmail username and password. The probably reason for this sudden setback is because of business. The main part is that facebook has its own version of Google's AdSense. Google, now one of the leading companies in online advertising, was helping Facebook grow and in return wanted to spread their advertising into facebook. Yet Facebook refused and so since there was no money to be made on Facebook at the moment, the feature was shut down.

Now people can still search for friends, but instead of just logging into your own gmail account, you have to search for each friend's gmail addess, but it will only work if the friend's gmail address was posted on facebook, and is not private.