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If anything, Buzz is destined to be remembered as Google&#039;s botched attempt to build a social network to rival Facebook&#039;s online hangout.

[...] has more than 40 million users, and Google CEO Larry Page seems confident that it will become an effective weapon for fighting the threat posed by Facebook and its audience of 800 million users.

Page says he wants to &quot;put more wood behind fewer arrows&quot; as Google tries to maintain its dominance of Internet search and advertising while it duels with Apple Inc. for supremacy in the increasingly important smartphone market. 
					