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Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by Steko »

nl wrote: post #146
Steko wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That link hasn't always been there and isn't there in your browser search box and doesn't even say "Google+" or "Google Plus" at least from where I'm sitting. Page view data we have is, frankly, terrible. If Google wants to prove to the world what a huge success G+ they could do this in 10 seconds by giving us some pageview, photo, post, etc stats. The fact that they don't do this is telling. "anyone who is engaged i…

If Google wants to prove to the world what a huge success G+ they could do this in 10 seconds by giving us some pageview, photo, post, etc stats. From the linked article: During the Google I/O Conference in June, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that the Google+ mobile traffic is now larger than the desktop traffic. Gundotra also announced that Google+ has 250 million accounts, 150 million active users during a month…

"Google+ mobile traffic is now larger than the desktop traffic"

All this does is confirm that G+ isn't growing organically, it's growing only because it's default on for most new Android and Gmail users.

Claiming all these people as G+ users is only slightly less disingenuous then say if Apple came out tomorrow claiming that iCloud was the hottest new social network.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by viraptor »

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…

> MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history.

And let's see if they can pivot the business around media. Myspace TV is a quite interesting idea and I'm waiting to see what's going to happen with it...

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by bringonbob »

I cannot believe no one has brought up the fact Google's Chrome web browser updates have been practicing evil, and thus the impressive growth. Essentially, it tricks people into signing up as a Google user. The push to corner a phenomena, which has reached its peak, by Google has been rather jaw dropping. The next generation is about to change everything and only a few will guess correctly what they will make the next must-have service will be.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by idspispopd »

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.

Quality of membership(i.e actual use) is more important than raw membership numbers. Those who seek out LinkedIn/Facebook/others are likely to be more interested in using the service than someone who joined G+ because their default search engine asked them to enter their google services password to instantly become a member.

A comparable example is Apple's Ping. Apple doesn't tout Ping as a success because it has millions of members (who were similarly presented with a trivial sign up method in iTunes 10 - Ping registered over 1M users in the first 48 hours.) Ping, however, is rarely used by the bulk of it's members, as such it's being discontinued. Most people signed up just to see what it was like, they didn't stick around. Facebook/LinkedIn don't have this problem so much, most people already know what the services are for, so they don't need to create a profile just to see what it's like.

G+ is growing, but it's an overstatement to say that it has the same level of user engagement as facebook/LinkedIn/others.

While many continue with the faulty logic that G+ is a superior experience/platform so it should become the dominant service, need to revisit the learnings of Betamax: technical superiority does not equate to automatic or guaranteed success.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by Retric »

bsphil wrote: post #104
Steko wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Claims of G+'s amazing growth always looks silly when I run this bookmarked Insights: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CIns...

Does "Google Plus" also cover "G+" and "Google+" and whatever other variation of the name there is? That's probably the last way I'd think of searching for statistics on it. Everything else you listed doesn't have any common aliases.

No, just try it:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Google%20Plus%2CG%2...

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by jordanthoms »

Steko wrote: post #171
nl wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Google wants to prove to the world what a huge success G+ they could do this in 10 seconds by giving us some pageview, photo, post, etc stats. From the linked article: During the Google I/O Conference in June, Google’s Vic Gundotra announced that the Google+ mobile traffic is now larger than the desktop traffic. Gundotra also announced that Google+ has 250 million accounts, 150 million active users during a month…

"Google+ mobile traffic is now larger than the desktop traffic" All this does is confirm that G+ isn't growing organically, it's growing only because it's default on for most new Android and Gmail users. Claiming all these people as G+ users is only slightly less disingenuous then say if Apple came out tomorrow claiming that iCloud was the hottest new social network.

I disagree - I use G+ mobile more than desktop, not because it was preinstalled but just because it fits into my usage more, and google+ has great apps.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by PaulHoule »

But who actually pays attention to it?

The main consequence from Google Plus is that I see Kingsley Idenhen's face every time I do a query connected with the semantic web.

For the life of me I can't figure out how to send people messages or get into a hangout or do anything with plus...

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