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“Google Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more and start conversations about the things you find interesting.  It’s built right into G-mail and uses the friends you’ve already made.    So there’s nothing to set up.  You are automatically following those who you E-mail and chat with the most.  You can choose to share publicly with the world and privately with your closest group of friends.” (Google)

On Tuesday Google unveiled a new attempt to enter the social networking market-- Google Buzz...  But will it have a major impact?   The media is debating whether Google Buzz can rival Facebook and Twitter.

We have perspectives from YouTube, cnet tv, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek,

First CNET gives an inside look at what Google Buzz can offer that Facebook and Twitter doesn't.

"What makes buzz really different from the likes of facebook and twitter is that it has a recommendation engine.  Each time you like or hide a post google keeps track of that.  As you begin to use the service more it learns your taste about what sources you trust and what kind of content you tend like more than others.  In turn it will recommend incoming items saving your from having to weed through several hundred items at a time."

And tech blogger Shelly Palmer agrees that Google Buzz can compete.

"Should Facebook be worried?  To tell you the truth everyone should be worried."

But not everyone is buying into the hype.  IDG news service points out one weakness of the new service.

"As of now buzz doesn't have a link to facebook.  And without the two applications communicating that represents a major gap in buzz's coverage.  You also can not update your twitter status, information only flows one way, for now."

Articles from PC World point to that same relationship, and say Twitter and Facebook should take measures to prevent Buzz from using their content.

"If Twitter is found dead anytime in the next couple of years, someone's going to need to hide Google Buzz, which debuted this morning, from the police."

"To protect itself from Google, Facebook content must never appear in any form as part of any Google product. Not ever, and Facebook should make the announcement today."

A blogger for Newsweek is fed up with the social network explosion.  He headlines: "Google Buzz-- More like Buzz Kill" and says that there isn't room in the market place for Google Buzz.

"...I want to just start screaming. What is it? Apparently it is Gmail on steroids. Basically, Google has copied stuff that people do on Facebook and Twitter, and added them to Gmail, so that now my email can become another place where I can network socially with my social network of people I don’t really even know"

So what do you think?  Can Google Buzz grab part of the social networking market?  Or are they too late?

Writer: Charlie McKeague

Producer: Newsy Staff