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Google+ Links Allegedly Not Showing Up on Facebook

Google alleges that Facebook is blocking links to Google+, the search giant’s new social-networking service. Dan Lyons reports.

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Just months after Facebook got busted for running a clumsy smear campaign against Google, the two companies are in a fresh spat. Google alleges that Facebook posts containing a link enabling the recipient to sign up for Google+, the new social-networking system from Google, which is a rival to Facebook,...

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