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Google+ is not just the search giant's effort to take on Facebook: it's primarily an 'identity service' that Google will use to help build other services. That's according to Google chairman Eric Schmidt.
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The German State of Schleswig-Holstein has imposed a ban on clicking the Facebook 'Like' button and has said state institutions should remove it from their Web sites or face a fine.
The decision comes a mere four months after the social networking giant first rolled out Deals in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego and San Francisco, offering its own version of the flash discount sites that have proved popular.
