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Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by jedberg »

therealarmen wrote: post #12

Sigh. We're drawing conclusions from Compete again? I've said this before and I'll say it again; using Compete for quantitative traffic comparisons is flawed, particularly with social sites that utilize embeddable content. Their data has been proven wrong countless times. Until recently, Compete claimed Reddit ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/ ) had less traffic than Digg ( http://siteanalytics.compete.c…

Seconded. Compete's numbers are just made up. I know for sure they are off by more than an order of magnitude for reddit (or at least were a year ago).

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by shashashasha »

simonsarris wrote: post #8

Wow. Lots of impressions here. MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history. Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Gosh just look at the page. Google+ looks very clean and beautiful compared to Facebook these days. I'm reminded of when everybody used to say "Facebook looks very clean and beautiful compared to MySpace these days". Google has a big leg up here as…

These numbers also seem to only be US numbers, so it might be hiding a lot of international growth in LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr (not to mention Facebook).

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by JaggedJax »

A likely cause for this that I haven't seen noted yet is that they are slyly directing people to G+ without the user even knowing. If you click on a Google Maps result to get the full information page, it's no longer a Google Maps page, it's a G+ page. These traffic numbers clearly include lots of people who got to G+ in this manner.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by larrys »

vibrunazo wrote: post #24
programminggeek wrote: post #6

Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. None of the non-techie people I know use Google+ or even mention it at all.

Obviously anecdotal. One explanation might be G+ international popularity. A quick look at "what's hot" and you'll see plenty of center and eastern asian names on the comments. The Android developer relations team makes weekly public hangouts in different time zones. I tried a few different ones out of curiosity and noticed that both the Indian and Brazilian ones are much more popular than the american hangout (which…

"One explanation might be G+ international popularity."

Another explanation is that it's impossible to sign up for any google product (like gmail) w/o getting herded into google plus.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by hyperbovine »

huggyface wrote: post #23
programminggeek wrote: post #6

Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. None of the non-techie people I know use Google+ or even mention it at all.

Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes? If I give a Google+ growth anecdote, does that invalidate yours? I have no idea why Google+ is being compared to LinkedIn. They have very little overlap. Even among Facebook and Google+ the overlap is limited. Nonetheless Google keeps it…

> Why is there the need to respond to data with anecdotes?

Why, haven't you heard? The plural of anecdote is data! :-)

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by muhfuhkuh »

tptacek wrote: post #20
muhfuhkuh wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The irony is that most people use Facebook (and LinkedIn) as glorified publicly-facing email accounts with automatic reply-to-all and attachments set to auto-open and display in-line. The only thing added is a rudimentary voting system.

I use Facebook to share and chat about photos. I use LinkedIn for recruiting. I use neither as "publicly facing email accounts". At some level, any application can be described as "forms with some text inputs and some submit buttons".

"I use Facebook to share and chat about photos."

Which I'm sure you used to do in email. Smaller circle, same user task.

"I use LinkedIn for recruiting."

I still use email sometimes for that. Smaller circle, same user tasks (attaching resumes, getting contact info for screenings, planning meet and greets).

Actually, it was Monster.com + email, so yeah, I guess LinkedIn replaced those.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by creativityland »

stellar678 wrote: post #22
programminggeek wrote: post #6

Yes, but I know dozens of people on LinkedIn. I know one active Google+ user and he's a bit of a Google fanboy to begin with. None of the non-techie people I know use Google+ or even mention it at all.

I think G+ is going to worm its way in by offering add-ons that actually draw people in. The two major examples for me are Hangouts and the fact that G+ posts from 'important' people appear in Google News rollups about a particular story. Hangouts are really the only reason I've ever seen a non-techie use G+, and they work really well. People seem to try Skype and then realize that there are weird rules about having…

I'm also seeing more google results to G+ pages instead of the wikipedia page when searching for names, famous people, topics, places and so on. Coincidence?

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by Josh2600hz »

jedberg wrote: post #31
therealarmen wrote: post #12

Sigh. We're drawing conclusions from Compete again? I've said this before and I'll say it again; using Compete for quantitative traffic comparisons is flawed, particularly with social sites that utilize embeddable content. Their data has been proven wrong countless times. Until recently, Compete claimed Reddit ( http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/ ) had less traffic than Digg ( http://siteanalytics.compete.c…

Seconded. Compete's numbers are just made up. I know for sure they are off by more than an order of magnitude for reddit (or at least were a year ago).

Most of the traffic tracking on the web involves plugins (generally in the form of a toolbar). I don't know about you guys, but I haven't had a 3rd party toolbar in my browser interface in a long time.

Compete, Alexa, etc. they're all tracking people who don't understand technology.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by mhurron »

brudgers wrote: post #2

I'm on Google+ because I have a Gmail account. I'm on Linkedin (and Facebook) because they offer value.

Wait, you have a G+ page, space, whatever automatically because you have a gmail account? Is there a way to get rid of that?

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by dsirijus »

rhizome wrote: post #11
simonsarris wrote: post #8

Wow. Lots of impressions here. MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history. Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Gosh just look at the page. Google+ looks very clean and beautiful compared to Facebook these days. I'm reminded of when everybody used to say "Facebook looks very clean and beautiful compared to MySpace these days". Google has a big leg up here as…

Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Both of them are terrible on mobile.

Pinterest is totally not transferable to small screen mobile devices. Its main point is to offer many images at a glance, which is impossible on small screen.
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