Google, Inc. the search engine giant and ever expanding empire of web based services has announced that it recently purchased a start up social network site called Angstro, a small site that builds apps for the exchanging of info across social services by pulling in data from social networking niche sites like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Experts see this as Google’s attempt to expand into the social networking market which it has, in the past, struggled to achieve in success in. One of the founders of Angstro, Rohit Khare, posted to his blog recently that he had been hired by Google to work on a social networking related project, but sources were unable to confirm which project that is since Khare declined to comment on its specific nature. Khare has long hoped to have open social networking across multiple sites so experts in the industry believe that he may have been brought on board Google to help create software or services that would head in that direction and, if the results desired become achieved, open up that market for users who would otherwise need to maintain multiple presences across multiple sites.

Those close to Google have observed that the company has spent the summer of 2010 building up a portfolio of engineers and software designers in the social networking market who are specialist in that kind of tech. Further investing in Jambool which builds apps and virtual goods, along with online game maker Zynga, shows that Google may have big plans for the future of this part of the tech market.