Will Google Start Second Life Competitor?

Written by Igor Beuker on July 2nd, 2008 | 5 comments

Almost a year ago rumors were going that Google was planning to launch a 3D social network like Second Life. I have not seen it yet, have you?

The rumor came from students and from Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Benchmark Capital, which is one of the investors in Second Life. He said the rumor is “Google is working on turning Google Earth into a virtual world a la Second Life.”

Also CNN wrote Google would move into 3D virtuals worlds, and would use its Maps and Earth applications to support its virtual world. And Tech Crunch also wrote about Google’s project Redefine your world with Arizona State University.

Unfortunately, I have not found any news that Google has delivered this full UGC 3D virtual world yet. Do you think it’s just speculations or do you have any new clues for our community?

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5 Comments

• Lars says:

  July 3, 2008 at 09:48

  I think it could be possible that orkut can be an part of this idea. But I dont havy any exact news.

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• Igor Beuker says:

  July 3, 2008 at 10:39

  Hi Lars,

  Orkut.. that might be a new insight I have not heard yet. Interesting..

  Could you reveal a part of how you got to mention Orkut?

  Cheers

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• Lars says:

  July 3, 2008 at 11:00

  Orkut is the social network community from Google. I think with this product has Google a good opportunity to use these community as a basic plattform. With orkut they could the user profiles from orkut on google earth. When they bind these plattform, they have an local community on google earth.

  When I’m thinking forward, in combination with google sketchup they can build their own 3D Community.

  That+s only my idea….

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• Igor Beuker says:

  July 3, 2008 at 11:04

  I get your strategic thoughts and in my opinion they make a lot of sense.

  Curious is we can find more people with a opinion on this.. a scoop from an insider would also be nice

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• SEO says:

  August 15, 2009 at 04:53

  I’m still waiting for Google to put out their operating system that was rumored to be in production. That would be an all out assault on Microsoft. Google would write SOOO many licenses!

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