The internet giant was left with the developer of the award-winning Snapseed application to edit images. Facebook, owner of Instagram, is the great objective of Google.
Photo: fileGoogle and Facebook are immersed in a battle to attract fans of social networks increasingly passed to mobile applications such as photo editing.
Although it is not as famous as Instagram, available for free in Apple's mobile devices, Snapseed won many fans among the photographers for their ability of editing images despite a cost of u$ s4, 99.
Nik Software says that Snapseed has more than 9 million users, insofar as Instagram claims to have more than 100 million.
"We want to help our users to create pictures that enchant them, and according to our experience Nik makes it better than anybody else," he posted on Google + Vic Gundotra, senior Vice President of engineering.
Facebook bought this year Instagram, which developed an application for users to add filters and effects to photos that take with their smart phones, for u$ s1.000 million.
Snapseed won the prize for "Application of the year for iPad" Apple for its multi-touch photo editing interface in 2011.
"We always aspire to share our passion for photography with all, and with the support of Google hope to help many millions more than people to create"
"impressive photographs," said Nik Software on its web site.
Gundotra said Google + had reached more than 400 million users this week and had crossed the 100 million monthly active users.
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