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uber and lyft are now competing with a new ride-sharing service Google yep Google officially launched its own ride hailing F it's called Waze writer it's a spin-off of the ways driving app the twist with Google's version is that it's more like a carpool you would book rides to and from work from people who make a similar commute as you do but as The Wall Street Journal reports this was a quiet launch it's only available right now to the San Francisco area and unlike the taxi style service of uber and lyft Waze writer users are limited to two rides a day just to work and back early users report it to be much cheaper as well Google has been testing this since May and rolling it out to the entire San Francisco area for several weeks now Google and uber have a complicated relationship lately when uber originally launched Google invested 250 million dollars into Oberer and uber services are also tied into Google Apps for example you can book a ride from inside Google Maps but then uber started hiring Google employees and uber started testing self-driving cars just like Google and now both companies are offering ride-sharing services it won't be long before these frenemies are full-out rivals that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash