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Google+ Isn’t Going Away

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Post by mpclark »

gordonc wrote: post #6

I am hanging out on a team product meeting with peeps in Paris, Philly, NYC, and SF as I type this. For me, this makes G+ 100x more valuable than FB.

Exactly! Google+ is brilliant for business use. I'm sharing stuff with colleagues far more effectively (and selectively) now.

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Post by andrewfurman »

I know google won't kill it for a long time, but in most ways it is going away since no one is using it. Then hopefully one day they'll finally admit failure and it will go the way of google buzz.

After listening to the zuck talk about facebook as a platform and the owner of the graph, I'm developing this scary feeling that it is going to be imposible for anyone else to break into that space.

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Post by bitskits »

badclient wrote: post #8

Google+ as a competitor to facebook is dead. Now, you can come up with all the creative ideas in the world about how G+ is not supposed to be a facebook killer. I believe that is a cop out. Google really wants to kill facebook and hoped to make a dent with G+. Why is it hard to acknowledge that they haven't made any noticeable dent? And that for the most part, facebook was very quick to address the granular privacy f…

I respectfully disagree. Was your expectation that G+'s user-base would eclipse FB after 5 months? I don't think that's realistic (really going out on a limb here). By that metric you could have said the same thing about FB in the early days when MySpace had all the users. Clearly, over time, people moved to the better product.

If you want to comment on the rate of adoption, that's one thing, but lets compare apples to apples.

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Post by mikeryan »

I've found its starting to get hard to analyze some Google products and their likelihood of survival when it comes to Google. In my case its when I get questions about the GoogleTV. If it were any other company I'd say "yeah that product is dead" but its not any company. Its Google, who has 40B dollars in cash reserves. They have an unprecedented ability to continue to develop products which are "flops" if they continue to see a strategic advantage to being involved in the space. With the amount of financial runway, and human intelligence Google can provide to a product - its hard to see any of them continuing to fail indefinitely.

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Post by Kylekramer »

badclient wrote: post #8

Google+ as a competitor to facebook is dead. Now, you can come up with all the creative ideas in the world about how G+ is not supposed to be a facebook killer. I believe that is a cop out. Google really wants to kill facebook and hoped to make a dent with G+. Why is it hard to acknowledge that they haven't made any noticeable dent? And that for the most part, facebook was very quick to address the granular privacy f…

Here's a guess: engagement metrics of a 4.5 month old site are pretty pointless. And since Google+ is clearly not in the Facebook ballpark of usage, it would only reflect badly on Google. So why should Google release them? If you think not reaching Facebook-like status or denting Facebook in 4.5 months means Google+ is dead as a Facebook competitor, what could have Google done in that amount of time that would have made them a competitor in your eyes?

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Post by vidarh »

chintan wrote: post #14

"Google+ is Google" So it might not be far fetched to think that they might start requiring (or implicitly nudging) you to sign-in to G+ to use their Search.

By logging in, your search results leverage your profile information and connections. I guess a pretty strong "nudge" would simply be to aggressive promote that when you're not logged in.
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