Google wants a slice of social-networking pie

They are adding Social Gadgets (widgets) to a list of growing Google services. Nowadays, search engine companies venture into other online services to entice both users and advertisers to use their services. Google seems to be on the way to becoming a full-fledged internet portal much like yahoo. Will the foray into social networking be worthwhile for Google? Yahoo seems to be dying a slow death on the other hand.

For more information - visit google.com/igsocial