Google+ to surpass 10M Users • Hacker News Board

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by Flenser » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 10:59 AM UTC

aaronharnly wrote: post #9

The fact that random peoples' posts on Google+ show up as 'google.com' here and elsewhere is not good for Google's ownership of its messaging. On the other hand, their use of the blogspot.com domain for official news suggests they don't care, but on the other other hand, what is 'googleusercontent.com' if not a separation of what's Google's from what's everyone elses?

This got me thinking that gplus.com would be a good domain to put all the G+ content. Unfortunately it's taken, and is used for a community site: https://www.gplus.com/About-Us I sense a lawsuit in G+'s future

edit: I've submitted it to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2754271

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by cbs » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:04 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #3

The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it . I have a ton of non-tech savvy friends on it already, and people are making posts that get 5-10 replies. This isn't just "yet another social networking site". I think Google finally managed to pull it off this time, and if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained as a result of Android and other successful ventures as…

>The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it.

No its not. I've been seeing a lot of "Oh look, even the plebs are using it" attitude about g+. Of course they are, its GOOGLE plus not some obscure startup only techies with their ear to the ground have ever heard of.

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by w1ntermute » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:06 AM UTC

cbs wrote: post #12

w1ntermute wrote: post #3

The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it . I have a ton of non-tech savvy friends on it already, and people are making posts that get 5-10 replies. This isn't just "yet another social networking site". I think Google finally managed to pull it off this time, and if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained as a result of Android and other successful ventures as…

>The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it. No its not. I've been seeing a lot of "Oh look, even the plebs are using it" attitude about g+. Of course they are, its GOOGLE plus not some obscure startup only techies with their ear to the ground have ever heard of.

If that's the case, why didn't everyone start using Buzz the way they've started using Plus?

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by true_religion » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:14 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #13

cbs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it. No its not. I've been seeing a lot of "Oh look, even the plebs are using it" attitude about g+. Of course they are, its GOOGLE plus not some obscure startup only techies with their ear to the ground have ever heard of.

If that's the case, why didn't everyone start using Buzz the way they've started using Plus?

When they came out with Buzz, they didn't redo the entire interface for every product so that it would integrate well with it.

Even if Google+ is a total P.O.S, people would at least notice it unlike Buzz.

I was unaware for months that Buzz even existed.

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by haakon » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:17 AM UTC

netrus wrote: post #4

nextparadigms wrote: post #2

Not bad for first 2 weeks. If the growth rate continues, it should get 100 million users by the end of the year, or maybe in just a few short months.

Yep, If that growth rate continues, they should have 100 billion users in the end of 2012. Oh, wait ...

Reminds me of http://xkcd.com/605/ :-)

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by cbs » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:18 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #13

cbs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it. No its not. I've been seeing a lot of "Oh look, even the plebs are using it" attitude about g+. Of course they are, its GOOGLE plus not some obscure startup only techies with their ear to the ground have ever heard of.

If that's the case, why didn't everyone start using Buzz the way they've started using Plus?

Because buzz sucked? "Whos using it" is a different metric than "is anyone using it".

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by madaxe » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 11:53 AM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #3

The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it . I have a ton of non-tech savvy friends on it already, and people are making posts that get 5-10 replies. This isn't just "yet another social networking site". I think Google finally managed to pull it off this time, and if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained as a result of Android and other successful ventures as…

I'm really curious as to what all the fuss is about, but google+ isn't going to be available on Apps accounts until Q3 2012, at least... It's unclear as to how they hope to drive business adoption (i.e. monetisation), if they're going to lock out all business accounts!

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by swah » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 12:00 PM UTC

Anyone else felt unclear about whose Friends are seeing some comment?

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by meowzero » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 12:06 PM UTC

How many are actual users? About 50% of my friends in Google+ have no info, posts, pictures, etc., up. They're on Google+ because they got an invite and that's it. What's the use of having that many users if half of them don't use it?

Re: Google+ to surpass 10M Users

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Post by adriand » Tue, Jul 12, 2011, 12:18 PM UTC

w1ntermute wrote: post #3

The crazy thing about Google+ is that ordinary people are already actually using it . I have a ton of non-tech savvy friends on it already, and people are making posts that get 5-10 replies. This isn't just "yet another social networking site". I think Google finally managed to pull it off this time, and if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained as a result of Android and other successful ventures as…

> if they ride the wave of positive sentiment they've gained

It's interesting to consider what the impact of the goodwill many people feel towards Google will be on Google+. With traditional commodities (e.g. cars, detergent, etc.) companies are keen to maintain trust, a positive image, and so on, amongst consumers.

That seems to have been less a factor in the success of companies like Facebook, perhaps because what they offered was so new and compelling that many people were willing to overlook trust issues, ethical and privacy lapses, etc.

Perhaps social networks are now becoming a commodity, and as a result, these factors may end up being much more important. It would be fascinating if Google+'s success was less about the technology and more about how people feel towards the company - if people say, "I can get the same experience from product X as I can from product Y, but I trust the company that makes product X more."