Google should release numbers around this then if they want to stop articles like this. I recently signed up for a new GMail account and it automatically enroll

Google should release numbers around this then if they want to stop articles like this. I recently signed up for a new GMail account and it automatically enrolled me in Google+, so I am highly skeptical of their number of new users metric since they seem to be inflating it by tying unrelated things together. It may make sense for them to try and tie things together into one cohesive identity, but it is hard to deny it also conveniently inflates Google+ numbers, at least the only numbers they seem willing to talk about publicly.