It`s only been a couple of days since people criticized the new layout of Facebook and said that it`s beginning to be more and more like a search engine. And it`s true actually. Facebook is tagging the entire world, allowing you to search for anyone or anything (through profiles, fan pages and groups). Facebook formulated a web of profiles and how they are interconnected and now that this web is so big they are focusing on their search making Facebook a search engine for people, companies, and groups.

On the other hand, Google has always been mainly a search engine (a good one too), that expanded its services to a lot of other fields, with one of the most important being e-mail, via Gmail. But of course, as social networking appeared to be not enough for Facebook, search was not enough for Google, so they released Google Buzz which is a social networking module for Gmail that allows people to share their thoughts, links, etc. Similar to Facebook, it allows for commenting by your followers, privacy settings, etc.

How these two web giants managed to step into each other`s field beats me, but it seems that this is only the beginning. Facebook is on a steady course to its “tag the world” goal, and is now challenged by an initial release of Buzz. I`m sure we can expect Google Buzz to be given lots of new functionality and features soon. Of course, Buzz still far behind in terms of functionality, but who knows…time will tell.