Topic: Google+

YouTube Is Now the Size of Facebook

Reuters

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.

By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 17, 2013

Why Google Isn't Scared of Facebook's Graph Search

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?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 3, 2013

Why Google Really Wants You to Use Google+ This Year

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 6, 2012

Does Anyone Really Use Google+ Still?

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

May 10, 2012

Bing's Social Search Is Friends with Twitter and Facebook, But Not Google+

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+. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Apr 11, 2012

The New Google+ Aims to Perfect Procrastination

Just when you thought Google+ was worn out and ready for the boring bin, the search giant unleashed its secret weapon: Graphic design.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 23, 2012

Even Googlers Are Losing Faith in Google

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 9, 2012

Nobody Really Likes Social Search Besides Google

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.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 6, 2012

Google Fails to Convince People That Google+ Is Popular, Again

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. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Mar 2, 2012

Google vs. Yelp: A Zero Sum Game

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 28, 2012

The Reasons Google+ Is Still a Ghost Town

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 15, 2012

More Proof that Google+ Is a Ghost Town

Google has done a really good job getting people to sign up for a service that they never use. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Feb 3, 2012

Google+ Isn't Even Very Good at Search

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.

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By Eric Randall

Jan 31, 2012

There's One Big Difference Between a Google+ Hangout and a Fireside Chat

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.

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By Eric Randall

Jan 30, 2012

Obama Answers Questions Live in a Google+ Hangout

President Obama is hosting a Google+ "hangout" at 5:30 p.m. Monday to answer questions submitted virtually.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jan 26, 2012

Cartoon

Let's Google Map Your Privacy

Cartoonist Tom Toles on Google's privacy changes.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 23, 2012

Google Plays to Our Egos to Win Us Over on Google+

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. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jan 23, 2012

Google+ Will Now Let You Get Creative with User Names

After months and months of fielding complaints from users and criticism from privacy advocates, Google will finally let people use pseudonyms on Google+. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 23, 2012

This Facebook Hack Reverses Google's Self-Promoting Social Search

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 20, 2012

Google Says Google+ is Very Popular

Google's making its Google+ user engagement sound like a bonanza success story, but is it really as great as the company suggests?

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 13, 2012

FTC Is Officially Looking into Google's Self-Promoting Search Features

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 12, 2012

Here's Why Google's Facing an Antitrust Complaint Over Search Plus

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 11, 2012

Google Didn't Want to Favor Google+ in Its New Search, It Just Happened That Way

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. 

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 10, 2012

Google's New Search Engine Assumes People Use Google+

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Dec 29, 2011

Loyalists Really, Truly Believe Google+ Is Succeeding

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 23, 2011

Britney Spears Is the Best Thing to Happen to Google+

This morning, Google+ got some major celebrity cachet with Britney Spears surpassing Google CEO Larry Page as the most followed person on the network.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Nov 8, 2011

Tech Roundup: Google+ Backlash, Another Firefox Upgrade, iPhone Approval

A Google+ backlash, a third Firefox update in three months, and Consumer Reports finally -- finally! -- recommends the iPhone.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 7, 2011

Another Way Google Is Disappointing Power Users for the Sake of Google+

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. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 3, 2011

A Former Google Designer Offers to Clean Up Their Reader Mess

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.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 2, 2011

The World Is Even Angrier Than Before About the New Google Reader

Believe it or not, the outrage over the new Google Reader design is leaking out of the Sharebro circles and becoming rather deafening. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Nov 1, 2011

Google Finally Responds to the Reader Outrage

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.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 31, 2011

The End of Days for Google Reader Is Here

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.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 31, 2011

The Sharebros Are Building a Google Reader Replacement

One code-savvy, soon-to-be-former Google Reader user would rather create a new site for the RSS-feeds than switch to Google+. 

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 25, 2011

The World Is Surprisingly Angry About the End of Google Reader

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.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Oct 25, 2011

How to Survive the Switch from Google Reader to Google+

Sometime this week, Google Reader will retire its social features many confusing sharing features, forcing their small but passionate community to relocate to Google+.

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By Dino Grandoni

Oct 24, 2011

Google Is Mulling a Bid for Yahoo

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.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Oct 21, 2011

Google's Steve Yegge Wins the Blog Readers He's Always Wanted

After publicly posting a 3,000-plus word tirade "by accident," Google engineer Steve Yegge has become quite an accomplished blog-ranter.

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By Ted Mann

Oct 10, 2011

Minus One: Google+ Is Losing Users Fast

The Facebook rival shot up like a rocket on launch; it's coming down the same way

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 27, 2011

Despite Google+'s Explosive Growth, Facebook Is Still Very Dominant

Traffic is up 1269 percent for Google's social network

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 20, 2011

Google+ Hangouts May Have Gotten Good Enough to Lure Facebookers

Google added bells and whistles to its shiniest offering

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 13, 2011

Everyone Loses on Booberday Except Google+

An embarrassing breast cancer awareness meme proves the social network's relevance

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By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 13, 2011

Less Famous Facebook Co-Founder Tells All

Dustin Moskovitz told the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt that he left Facebook "because he had an idea"

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 7, 2011

Facebook's Doing Just Fine, Doubles Its Revenue

Competitors like Google+ haven't hurt the social network's earnings, yet

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 11, 2011

Games in Google+ Should Scare Facebook

The latest addition to the social network could hit Facebook where it hurts

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 28, 2011

A Month After Launch and Google+ Visits Slow

U.S. visitors have dropped and people are spending less time on the site

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 25, 2011

The Cases For and Against Google+'s Real-Name Policy

Has the social network made a mistake by deleting pseudonymous profiles en masse?

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By Eric Randall

Jul 25, 2011

Today's Best

Five Best Monday Columns

Aging democracies, Murdoch as Macbeth, and Google+ as alternative reality

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By Adam Clark Estes

Jul 22, 2011

Google's Coming for Your Money

The search giant grew by giving stuff away for free; that's about to change

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By Dino Grandoni

Jul 22, 2011

Chart of the Day

Chart: Google+ Hit 10 Million Users 50 Times Faster Than Facebook

But it's still nowhere near Facebook's 750 million users

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 21, 2011

How Google+ is Showing It's Serious About Privacy

With its first acquisition, Fridge, the social network shows it means business

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jul 20, 2011

Why Google+ Is Different From Facebook, According to Google

A Google designer explains how the social network stands out

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