Why Google+ matters (because, Google says so).
April 30, 2012
I usually avoid repeating infographics, but thought this one was a great illustration of Google+ and Google’s strategy for owning the world (at the expense of everyone else). Up until Google+ and the company force feeding it into everything, I had been a huge Google fan. I’m really not sure anymore. What happened to “don’t be evil”?
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I wish this was more surprising… and agree Google is pushing the good-will they’ve built up over the years with the way they’re pushing Google Plus.
I wouldn’t mind them pushing Google Plus — fairly, as a service — but they seem to be penalizing people for using Twitter, and penalizing sites for NOT entirely switching over to use Google Plus because they have a monopoly on search traffic. Reminds me of Microsoft in the day. (One even fears that writing a negative post about Google might result in a search penalty for your site nowadays!!)
Google is pushing even harder post-Penguin for social queues. Google + followers are good, especially if the roll out steadily over a long period of time. The real money comes from Google + shares though, meaning G+ users actually drop a link on their wall.