{"id":1223,"date":"2011-03-31T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/03\/31\/google-takes-on-facebook-with-latest-social-tweak\/"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:55:00","slug":"google-takes-on-facebook-with-latest-social-tweak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/03\/31\/google-takes-on-facebook-with-latest-social-tweak\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Takes on Facebook with Latest Social Tweak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AxovwGXJvIE\/TZT5LOwY-zI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/Q_ffsMoR2Cs\/s1600\/Google-Plus-One.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 227px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-AxovwGXJvIE\/TZT5LOwY-zI\/AAAAAAAAAUY\/Q_ffsMoR2Cs\/s400\/Google-Plus-One.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590367008808565554\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">Check out this article about Google&#8217;s latest endeavor, which happens to directly compete with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/American-University-Library-Media-Services-Friends-and-Alumni\/169574970717\">Facebook<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/span><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;     Normal   0               false   false   false      EN-US   X-NONE   X-NONE                                                     MicrosoftInternetExplorer4                                                   &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                &lt;![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;  &lt;![endif]-->  <\/p>\n<p><span><span>(Reuters) &#8211; Google Inc will begin allowing users to personally endorse search results and Web pages, its latest attempt to stave off rival Facebook Inc while trying to jump onboard a social networking boom. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/30\/us-google-idUSTRE72T5J720110330\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Read more..<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-size:100%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GhT_4UP64yI\/TZT5Iba_GRI\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/ghD3KhRHx4o\/s1600\/google-plus-one-1-button.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px;height: 219px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GhT_4UP64yI\/TZT5Iba_GRI\/AAAAAAAAAUQ\/ghD3KhRHx4o\/s400\/google-plus-one-1-button.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590366960668842258\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this article about Google&#8217;s latest endeavor, which happens to directly compete with Facebook. (Reuters) &#8211; Google Inc will begin allowing users to personally endorse search results and Web pages, its latest attempt to stave off rival Facebook Inc while trying to jump onboard a social networking boom. Read more..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}