Another rumor confirmed: Google has invested $1 million in Comsenz, a Chinese company that provides social networking software, according to VentureBeat. That's $4 million less that the rumors had indicated any investment amount would be, but the move does reaffirm Google's desire to soak up more market share in the Chinese market. Additional investment in this second round of financing for Comsenz comes from Sequoia Capital China Fund.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]Comsenz operates Discuz, one of the largest bulletin board systems in the country. As BBS's are still rather prominent in China, the strategic investment on Google's part could easily have to do with furthered integration with other Google apps later on down the line.