The battle for WORLD wide web DOMINATION: Facebook vs. Google

After launching its open graph api for only a week, Facebook has already announced that over 50,000 websites have integrated its social plugins, and as we speak more sites expected to follow suit, thus this allows Facebook to draw nearer to its goal of being the center of the World Wide Web. This places Facebook in a favorable position for World Wide Web Domination, making them a serious threat towards Google's seemingly unsurpassable position. And if it's still not enough, Facebook has also teamed up with Microsoft to offer a new online document editing service called Docs.com, which directly challenges Google Docs.

With Facebook marching in strongly at all fronts to undermine Google's leadership position, Google is definitely not resting on its laurels. In 2010 alone (up till April 30^th); Google has already acquired 9 different startups companies, they are namely

• Aardvark (Social Search)
  
• ReMail (Email Search)
  
• Picnik (Photo Editing)
  
• DocVerse (MS Office file sharing site)
  
• Episodic (Online Video Platform)
  
• Plink (Mobile Search Engine)
  
• LabPixies (Online gadget publisher)
  
• Agnilux ( Server technology)
  
• BumpTop (Desktop Environment)
  

It is still unclear how Google plans to integrate these startups into its already humongous empire, but from the looks of things, these startups might just provide Google with the much needed arsenal to gain back the edge from Facebook, and as we speak, Google might already be planning a couple more acquisitions in the later part of the year.

Only time will tell who the eventual victor will be in this face-off, but in the meantime we can definitely expect more cool and free stuff from both Google and Facebook as they square it off in the battle for WORLD wide web DOMINATION.