Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
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#2>"Mr. Gundotra and Mr. Horowitz said that knowing more about individual Google users will improve all Google products, including ads, search, YouTube and maps, because Google will learn what people like and eventually be able to personalize those products."
I am obviously ignorant in my belief:
privacy != Google obtaining and storing increasingly intimate personal dataRe: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#3Advertising your site as a "Facebook competitor" (instead of implying it) is a recipe for failure because you want people to look at your site as something completely unique rather than putting it next to Facebook immediately.
Re: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#4Count me as one of the folks that believes Google ought to fix search before it takes on the juggernauts of the consumer web. But that could just be the SEO in me talking.
Re: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#5> "Mr. Gundotra and Mr. Horowitz said that knowing more about individual Google users will improve all Google products, including ads, search, YouTube and maps, because Google will learn what people like and eventually be able to personalize those products." I am obviously ignorant in my belief: privacy != Google obtaining and storing increasingly intimate personal data
Exactly.
Who in their right mind would use the social services of a company like this:
>"Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices related to Buzz and agreed to 20 years of audits."
Re: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#6Advertising your site as a "Facebook competitor" (instead of implying it) is a recipe for failure because you want people to look at your site as something completely unique rather than putting it next to Facebook immediately.
I think that's true for small startups, but for someone like Google? Presumably, nearly everyone with a gmail address will already be a user, which means that there won't be any migration hassles - "I'd join, but Timmy and Jimbo aren't on GooBook yet!"
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#7The challenges Google Plus faces are quite apparent from the end of the article page. Right next to the link to page 2 there is:
Connect with The New York Times on Facebook.
Re: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#8> "Mr. Gundotra and Mr. Horowitz said that knowing more about individual Google users will improve all Google products, including ads, search, YouTube and maps, because Google will learn what people like and eventually be able to personalize those products." I am obviously ignorant in my belief: privacy != Google obtaining and storing increasingly intimate personal data
Exactly. Who in their right mind would use the social services of a company like this: > "Google settled with the Federal Trade Commission over charges of deceptive privacy practices related to Buzz and agreed to 20 years of audits."
The same people who use Facebook because they
a) don't know about the privacy issues, or
b) don't care, or
c) use it to promote their business (much like Pages on Facebook.)
Re: Google Introduces Facebook Competitor, Emphasizing Privacy
#9Advertising your site as a "Facebook competitor" (instead of implying it) is a recipe for failure because you want people to look at your site as something completely unique rather than putting it next to Facebook immediately.
Is Google+ being advertised that way? I see that in the news articles about Google+, but not in Google's own materials.
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#10I definitely tried to sign up and after submitting the form on the "Keep me Posted" page, I got a 500 internal server error. Good job google