Has Google Learned From Social Failure?

Why Google+ might succeed where Buzz failed

With Google+, it looks like the search giant may have finally built a social product that people will use.

Shortly after Google announced the new social networking service, executives Bradley Horowitz and Vic Gundotra (who are leading the company's social efforts) spoke with Adweek about the lessons they've learned from past failures, both inside and outside Google. The company's most infamous social fumble was its product Google Buzz, which many users saw as a violation of their privacy—as did the Federal

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