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Google+ is Growing Like Crazy
- Estragon 15y agoThe methodology offered in the comments, of googling for http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=653&q=inurl%3Aplus.google.com%2F*about+site%3Aplus.google.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&biw=1366&bih=653&#... and taking the number of results returned for the number of users, seems more direct. Currently that returns about 6.5 million users, which is in the same ballpark.
- EricBurnett 15y agoI see about 2.8 million results from that query, but I'm not surprised the number changes a lot. The result counts are a very rough approximation calculated on the fly, and shouldn't be relied on for more than order-of-magnitude estimates. The last name method is precise, but of questionable accuracy; the result count is probably more accurate, but very imprecise. Take your pick :).
- Estragon 15y agoThat's interesting; if I anonymize by searching through Google Sharing, I also get 2.8 million results. Searching from my own IP address (though without being logged in) still gives 6.5 million.
- esrauch 15y agoI think that they are reorganizing the results based on if you are signed in with an account that has plus or not. There was someone who posted that their Google+ was "already" in the top 10 results and twitter wasn't even shown, but it was only true if you were logged in. Hopefully they aren't doing something too drastic; there's allegedly already an ongoing antitrust investigation about how google orders its search results.
- Estragon 15y agoMaybe, but it's worth noting that I wasn't signed in, and don't have a G+ account, yet.
- karlzt 15y agothat's wrong, two of the first results are posts by Tom Anderson and Dave Besbris.
- MaysonL 15y agoThis returned about 6.5 million for me too. The strange, interesting tidbit I noted was that the user #s by no means conformed to Benford's law: I clicked through 5 pages of search results, and all of the user #s began with 11 or 10.
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- michaelchisari 15y agoHow to Delete a Google+ Account http://forkbombr.net/delete-google-plus-account/ http://forkbombr.net/delete-google-plus-account/
- Andrex 15y agoGet your data out of Google+: https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata https://plus.google.com/settings/exportdata Disable Google+: https://plus.google.com/downgrade/ https://plus.google.com/downgrade/ Delete your Google account: https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/DeleteAccount https://www.google.com/accounts/b/0/DeleteAccount
- tokenadult 15y agoMy surname is so rare that by United States government policy it does not show up on federal lists of surnames by frequency. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/dist.all.last I am on Google+. A New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17surnames.html establishes some context on the frequency of various surnames in the United States. English surnames are predominant, but Spanish surnames are gaining relative frequency. P.S. Responding to another comment here, surely as more companies get into social networking, and social networking becomes a growing share of all Internet activity, third-party organizations will have to agree on standardized methodologies for estimating users of each service, to guide advertisers and investors, and to answer the questions of journalists. For the moment, I notice that Google+ has already achieved a status previously achieved for me by HN and by Facebook--I tend to keep a tab open to it at all times while I am browsing the Web.
- adorton 15y agoJust so people are clear - this isn't THE Paul Allen. This Paul Allen is a Utah-based entrepreneur. I'm sure that's obvious to most here, but I thought it was worth pointing out.
- shantanubala 15y agoTo be honest, I was first a little excited when I saw the headline, but I realized it was a different person when I saw the profile picture. The title of the post is a bit confusing since I didn't know of the Utah-based Paul Allen.
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- jcfrei 15y agoI think calling G+ to be growing like crazy is misleading. Gmail itself has about 200 mio. users - migrating those users to a G+ account shouldnt be that difficult. What's really gonna be interesting is whether G+ will be capable of attracting new users, which are not yet part of google's 'services cloud'.
- lhnz 15y agoTrue, but I also think it will be interesting to see whether the users that get a Google+ account actually use it. I use Twitter for purpose-less tech/business opinions. I use Facebook rarely to talk to my brother and sister. I use Skype for work conversations. I don't yet see people using this enough for me to want to move to it. edit; If they created some kind of BBM-type android service that sat on top of Google+ I think it would make me switch my SMS usage because I have a lot of friends that use Android phones...
- jbrkr 15y agoBBM-type android service You've described Huddle[1], part of the Google+ app for Android. "Huddle lets you send super-fast messages to the people you care about most." Presumably, Huddle will be part of the Google+ app on other platforms, too. [1] https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.apps.plus https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app...
- kubrickslair 15y agoIt's not just migrating users, its keeping them interested in Google+ as opposed to Facebook.
- SonicSoul 15y agoBuzz had a similar opening http://goo.gl/kA0pH http://goo.gl/kA0pH Such measures are meaningless because no effort is required to join for existing G users. Lets wait for Facebook or Twitter conversion rates to come out before breaking out the Crystal
- city41 15y agoYou still need an invite and then walk through the sign up process, even if you already have a Google account. Buzz was just dropped on all Gmail users out of nowhere.
- yalogin 15y agoWhether Google+ is really growing like crazy or not, it appears that there is definitely a place for a new social network outside of facebook. And on that note could not help think that Apple probably missed a great opportunity with Ping.
- codabrink 15y agoAnd I'm glad they did. Judging from Apple's business model, it would have been yet another closed off, keep your data social network. I've been dying for an open network like Google+, and I think things played out quite well.
- kmavm 15y agoWhat's open about Google+? You can delete your account and download your data from Facebook as well; you can also write third party applications that read and write from/to Facebook, unlike Google+.
- codabrink 15y agoGoogle allows you to export your data through their "Google Takeout" service. This includes your contacts and circles, unlike facebook, who is now pushing harder than ever to keep your contacts in Facebook.
- bonch 15y agoGoogle Buzz also had "tens of millions" of people: http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq
- tonfa 15y agoIt was kind of forced to gmail users though.
- gaius 15y agoAnother problem with G+: it's not happy that people have non-GMail email addresses. Let's say I have my friend John Smith jsmith@gmail.com in a circle. G+ keeps asking me if I want to add him still. Why? Because in my GMail, I have also emailed him at john_smith@hotmail.com. There's no way for me to tell it that these are the same person. So I think G+ may be double-counting a significant number of users.
- stanleydrew 15y agoDo you have a single Google contact with both emails, or two contacts, one for each? Just curious to see if that might make a difference.
- akkartik 15y agoNo I can confirm that it's not taking contacts into account. I think it's because it's non-trivial to come up with a UI for picking the email to send the invite to.
- bergie 15y agoYou could send it to the address you've sent/received from most recently. Or prioritize on gmails, since those are already Google accounts
- abraham 15y agoGoogle won't count that as two users unless John as two Google accounts with Google+ profiles. You can verify non Gmail address with Google and they should show up as the same contact.
- calufa 15y ago// in 1 hour I found 1 million users, so I guess is more than 4.5 millions
- topbanana 15y agoGreat, but I can't use it because those who pay money for Google Apps for Domains are exluded from having a profile. No, I don't know why either.
- davros 15y agowhere are all these people getting their invites? Dropping hints with my Google contacts hasn't worked...