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Chrome was also heavily marketed, and that worked just fine.

• xab9 9y ago
  Because it's good. When firefox started slowly killing xul and the clusterfuck called IE stopped being the top (rabid) dog, a new kid had to come along. Google+ seemed like an afterthought, a way to create a facebook clone without creating a facebook clone.
  • enitihas 9y ago
    Google+ was given the most importance of any project within Google as far as I know.
    • chii 9y ago
      Politically, it's given importance, but users didn't see it that way, unlike chrome. It just goes to show that an exec pushing a project doesn't mean much when it's a shit project.