Google, obviously, doesn't do everything it tries well, but I've always been impressed with the way they integrate different services. I also have always appre

Google, obviously, doesn't do everything it tries well, but I've always been impressed with the way they integrate different services. I also have always appreciated the cleanliness of the UI on their products. Even their ads have always been text-based, where many other sites went wrong with giant "flashing text" banners and animation. If Google did build a social networking service, combined with Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Chat, etc. I think they would have a strong hand. Since they just announced targeted advertising based on profiling, gather social data about their users would make perfect sense. I know its been brought up recently why Facebook doesn't do something similar with all the data they have. It sounds as if Google is making moves in that direction, testing the "privacy waters" so to speak.