YouTube made a big announcement on Wednesday night — ten digits big to be exact. The video-sharing startup that spent its early days operating out of an apartment above a pizzeria now boasts one billion users.
Facebook may have just released a major search product that many are saying "declares war" on Google, but Google CEO Larry Page doesn't sound all that worried about the new competition. Because who said Facebook and Google couldn't get along?
Google has always made it all too easy to join its not so beloved social network, but now it's forcing users to log in with Google+ in order to get better (and more lucrative) data for advertisers.
In an attempt to show us how much Google+ has grown, Google released numbers Thursday that prove little more than how few users it's gotten users to engage with the service's front end.
Following Google's unsuccessful rollout of its Google+-integrated social search at the beginning of the year, Bing has announced its own version of the same idea, which, interestingly, does not involve Google+.
Just when you thought Google+ was worn out and ready for the boring bin, the search giant unleashed its secret weapon: Graphic design.
One of Google's own, Chief Internet Evangalist (and Internet inventor) Vint Cerf, has joined the growing chorus of voices warning of the possible end to Google's dominance.
Though Google claims the search process has been made better with its new social search, people don't want that type of personalized experience while searching, at least according to a new Pew study.
A week after The Wall Street Journal boldly declared that Google+ was a ghost town, Google offered The New York Times a different version of the story.
The founders of Yelp, the same company that rejected a $500 million acquisition offer from Google two years ago, must be feeling absolutely fantastic about their first day trading on the stock market. But Google hasn't given up trying to take over the listings business.
The Wall Street Journal has boiled down the failure of Google+ to make a dent in the social network dominance of Facebook, which we have noted for months to two simple stats: users spend about three minutes per month on Google+ compared to six to seven hours a month on Facebook.
Google has done a really good job getting people to sign up for a service that they never use.
Google may get a bad rap at building social networks, but they've always been the gold-standard in search. But there's something we've noticed in the "personalized results" that they're using to self-promote Google+: They are not very good.
People wondered Monday whether Obama has found in Google+ "hangouts" his "fireside chat" -- a new medium through which he, like President Roosevelt with the radio, can uniquely connect with citizens.
President Obama is hosting a Google+ "hangout" at 5:30 p.m. Monday to answer questions submitted virtually.
Six months after the Google+ debut, Google's trying to lure users into engaging it by playing to our egos with its new social search features.
After months and months of fielding complaints from users and criticism from privacy advocates, Google will finally let people use pseudonyms on Google+.
To prove a point, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter employees have joined forces to create a hack that gets around Google's preferential social search, providing the real, most relevant social-network related results.
Google's making its Google+ user engagement sound like a bonanza success story, but is it really as great as the company suggests?
Google still doesn't think it did anything wrong, even as the Federal Trade Commission folds its new search features that promote Google+ into its anti-trust investigations of the company.
After changing its search features earlier this week Google got all sorts of Internet complaints, now it's being hit with an actual complaint from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, who has filed a letter to the Federal Trade Commission.
After drawing criticism for favoring Google+ over other sites in its new social search, Google claims it would integrate Facebook and Twitter if it could, but it can't so it won't.
Today, the search engine started integrating Google+ into the standard search engine, with Search, plus Your World, " transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships," writes Google fellow Amit Singhal on The Official Google Blog.
This morning The New York Times reported what sounded like good news for Google+, but on closer inspection, the news may not say too much about the site's success.
This morning, Google+ got some major celebrity cachet with Britney Spears surpassing Google CEO Larry Page as the most followed person on the network.
A Google+ backlash, a third Firefox update in three months, and Consumer Reports finally -- finally! -- recommends the iPhone.
Google is resurrecting the "+" search feature to make it easier to find new brand pages on Google+, but like many of the other recent changes, repurposing old functionality for Google+ is alienating the search engine's dedicated users.
Worried that Google Reader will fall "victim to fashion," Kevin Fox is willing to drop everything in order to save the product he designed, and his friends want him to fix Gmail while he's at it.
Believe it or not, the outrage over the new Google Reader design is leaking out of the Sharebro circles and becoming rather deafening.
After ten days of hemming and hawing, Google is ready to address — but not apologize to — those users upset by the death of Reader's social features.
As previously announced, Google is rolling out a sleek new design and pulling the plug on Reader's social features at the end of the day on Monday.
One code-savvy, soon-to-be-former Google Reader user would rather create a new site for the RSS-feeds than switch to Google+.
The demise of Google Reader's share features is affecting everyone from RSS-junkies to Iranian freedom fighters, and many of them are very displeased.
Sometime this week, Google Reader will retire its social features many confusing sharing features, forcing their small but passionate community to relocate to Google+.
The Wall Street Journal has word from two private-equity firms that Google is interested in purchasing the "core business" of its rival Yahoo--a move that could put it up against other tech giant, Microsoft, in its bid for the company.
After publicly posting a 3,000-plus word tirade "by accident," Google engineer Steve Yegge has become quite an accomplished blog-ranter.
The Facebook rival shot up like a rocket on launch; it's coming down the same way
Traffic is up 1269 percent for Google's social network
Google added bells and whistles to its shiniest offering
An embarrassing breast cancer awareness meme proves the social network's relevance
Dustin Moskovitz told the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt that he left Facebook "because he had an idea"
Competitors like Google+ haven't hurt the social network's earnings, yet
The latest addition to the social network could hit Facebook where it hurts
U.S. visitors have dropped and people are spending less time on the site
Has the social network made a mistake by deleting pseudonymous profiles en masse?
Aging democracies, Murdoch as Macbeth, and Google+ as alternative reality
The search giant grew by giving stuff away for free; that's about to change
But it's still nowhere near Facebook's 750 million users
With its first acquisition, Fridge, the social network shows it means business
A Google designer explains how the social network stands out
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