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Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by bonch »

yalogin wrote: post #18

Whether Google+ is really growing like crazy or not, it appears that there is definitely a place for a new social network outside of facebook. And on that note could not help think that Apple probably missed a great opportunity with Ping.

As this article (http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq) pointed out:

[T]wo days after Buzz went live, Google posted a blog entry bragging that "tens of millions" of people had checked it out, and created more than 9 million posts and comments.

At some point, interest died.

So far Google+ is filled with Googlers, reporters, and tech enthusiasts. They're posting a lot, enjoying the Hangouts feature, and driving traffic to tech news sites.

But it's still way too early to know whether Google+ will get any traction with mainstream users -- the 750 million people who are on Facebook today.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by gaius »

Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person.

So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by stanleydrew »

gaius wrote: post #23

Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.

Do you have a single Google contact with both emails, or two contacts, one for each? Just curious to see if that might make a difference.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by gojomo »

bonch wrote: post #21
yalogin wrote: post #18

Whether Google+ is really growing like crazy or not, it appears that there is definitely a place for a new social network outside of facebook. And on that note could not help think that Apple probably missed a great opportunity with Ping.

As this article ( http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq ) pointed out: [T]wo days after Buzz went live, Google posted a blog entry bragging that "tens of millions" of people had checked it out, and created more than 9 million posts and comments. At some point, interest died. So far Google+ is filled with Googlers, reporters, and tech enthusiasts. They're posting a lot, enjoying the Hangouts feature, and driving traffic to tech…

Please, no TinyURLs that obscure the ultimate destination. URLs of any length work just fine here, with their display automatically clipped while the full URL is available for mouseover inspection. For example, here's how your original long URL displays:

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-buzz-started-off-reall...

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by akkartik »

stanleydrew wrote: post #24
gaius wrote: post #23

Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.

Do you have a single Google contact with both emails, or two contacts, one for each? Just curious to see if that might make a difference.

No I can confirm that it's not taking contacts into account. I think it's because it's non-trivial to come up with a UI for picking the email to send the invite to.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by city41 »

SonicSoul wrote: post #17

Buzz had a similar opening http://goo.gl/kA0pH Such measures are meaningless because no effort is required to join for existing G users. Lets wait for Facebook or Twitter conversion rates to come out before breaking out the Crystal

You still need an invite and then walk through the sign up process, even if you already have a Google account. Buzz was just dropped on all Gmail users out of nowhere.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by bergie »

akkartik wrote: post #26
stanleydrew wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have a single Google contact with both emails, or two contacts, one for each? Just curious to see if that might make a difference.

No I can confirm that it's not taking contacts into account. I think it's because it's non-trivial to come up with a UI for picking the email to send the invite to.

You could send it to the address you've sent/received from most recently. Or prioritize on gmails, since those are already Google accounts

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by abraham »

gaius wrote: post #23

Another problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.

Google won't count that as two users unless John as two Google accounts with Google+ profiles. You can verify non Gmail address with Google and they should show up as the same contact.

Re: Google+ is Growing Like Crazy

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Post by Estragon »

esrauch wrote: post #16
Estragon wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting; if I anonymize by searching through Google Sharing, I also get 2.8 million results. Searching from my own IP address (though without being logged in) still gives 6.5 million.

I think that they are reorganizing the results based on if you are signed in with an account that has plus or not. There was someone who posted that their Google+ was "already" in the top 10 results and twitter wasn't even shown, but it was only true if you were logged in. Hopefully they aren't doing something too drastic; there's allegedly already an ongoing antitrust investigation about how google orders its search…

Maybe, but it's worth noting that I wasn't signed in, and don't have a G+ account, yet.
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