The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
True, it's not known as "The Daily Fail" for nothing.
Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
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Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#52The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
So far there isn't a definitive decision on whether Google+ gives you cancer or not - http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/a-z/g
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#53The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
I assume that this is a reference to their excellent "Facebook gives you cancer" piece:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-...
Always worth another look if you want a reminder how far the press has fallen.
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#54The Daily Mail (and Sunday Mail) is a right-wing, racist, anti-science paper which goes out of its way to seek out inflammatory and exaggerated headlines to scare the public and sell more papers. I wouldn't give them the time of day.
I have to respect the balls with which they present utter nonsense, and the purity and refinement of their art of utter nonsense.
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#55The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
I assume that this is a reference to their excellent "Facebook gives you cancer" piece: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-... Always worth another look if you want a reminder how far the press has fallen.
I thought this was a reference to Ted's "Node is Cancer":
http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html
Seems that nowadays lots of things are cancer.
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#56The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
I was disappointed to see this story pop up in my Techmeme feed yesterday. IMHO getting tech stories from the Daily Mail is dangerously close to jumping the shark...
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
that is people searching for 'google+' a more accurate graph is: http://www.google.com/trends?q=plus.google.com&ctab=0... and that only shows up until the end of Sep and doesn't include the few days last week that google+ was linked to from the homepage of google.com
They are a bit less than allrecipes.com http://www.google.com/trends?q=plus.google.com%2Callrecipes.... 7M uniques: http://www.quantcast.com/allrecipes.com I would estimate G+ getting 5M uniques. However, what would be interesting is to know the pageviews. Facebook recently said they had recieved 500M visitors in a single day.
I don't think pageviews per visit is anywhere near what it is in Facebook - probably even by an order of magnitude. That is just my own perception from using it, though.
Facebook really do know how to suck time out of their users.
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I assume that this is a reference to their excellent "Facebook gives you cancer" piece: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-... Always worth another look if you want a reminder how far the press has fallen.
I thought this was a reference to Ted's "Node is Cancer": http://teddziuba.com/2011/10/node-js-is-cancer.html Seems that nowadays lots of things are cancer.
The Daily Mail (the paper in question here) often seems to be on a quest to divide everything in the world into two groups - things that cause cancer and things that cure cancer.
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#59The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
I hate to post trite things on HN but if you haven't heard of the Daily Mail there is a good (and humorous) summary of the paper made into a song using only their headlines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
There's also this spectacular database of what causes and cures cancer (as reported by the DM):
http://kill-or-cure.heroku.com/
(also applies to reply below... and has been linked already! oops)
Re: Google+ traffic grew by 480% in one month so press reports a 60% decline.
#60The source is the Daily Mail. Anyone familiar with that rag will know never to take whatever they say as truth. Surprised they didn't run with 'Google+ gives you cancer'.
Non-UK readers are missing a hell of a lot when it comes to the Daily Mail and the Express. Not even Fox News could top it.
Give it a few weeks and Princess Diana will be found alive on G+.