You can't help but cheer the underdog on when it nips at Facebook's heels.

Larry Page, Google’s (News - Alert) chief executive officer was “very happy” with the size of the Google+, according to Bloomberg Business week. He expressed some regret regarding Google's tendency to focus too heavily on web search development rather than social networking features.

In an effort to combine these two major initiatives, Google said they would like to integrate Google+ and their search function. Privacy advocates and Google's competition responded in kind with indignant wing flapping about a conflict of interest. In what ways, squawks the opposition, does this latest initiative by Google amount to anything more than another step toward Google’s monopolization of the Internet?

The loudest and most threatening squawks came from the late Steve Jobs (News - Alert) in the past He threatened to “destroy Android”, Google's open-source software suite, calling it a “stolen product”. When these and other war-declaring squawks made on behalf of Jobs came out in a posthumous biography by Walter Isaacson, Page seemed “un-plussed” (Forgive me.). He reciprocates little of Jobs' ire. To the contrary, Page commended the deceased Apple (News - Alert) magnate as the provider some “interesting insights” on how to run a company.

Perhaps it is more important to hear how Tim Cook, Jobs' successor, weighs in on the issue rather than Jobs himself seeing as how we can’t exactly reach him for comment. 4G may provide phenomenal reception, but it has yet to pierce the boundary into the world of the supernatural. We will have to wait and see if Ashton Kutcher can properly channel the Great Spirit as he is slated to play Jobs in an upcoming biopic.

Meanwhile, ZDnet analogizes Jobs and Cook to the Old and the New Testament regarding parts-fire-and-brimstone-per-million. Expect Cook to do what he can to cool down litigations between Samsun and Apple where possible.

Let's keep up with the Bible imagery: Call Google+ the David to the Facebook (News - Alert) Goliath. Google+ has 100 million users; Facebook has 845 million. ComScore Inc. estimates that Americans spend 7 1/2 hours on Facebook to every 3.3 minutes on the former.