New Google head of social media Dave Besbris has denounced rumors that Google+ could be getting downsized in light of the abrupt departure of former boss Vic Gundotra.
"We're the largest we've ever been," Besbris said. "We're actually very happy with the progress of Google+, [Larry Page] said this at the time that Vic transitioned that he's going to continue working on building this stuff, ... [ read the full article ]
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Google+ is an extortion scheme by Google to get you to sign up for the service. You can barely do anything on YouTube without a Google+ account and if you want your picture next to your blog article on a search, you need to use Google+ for that too.
Originally posted by SProdigy: Google+ is an extortion scheme by Google to get you to sign up for the service. You can barely do anything on YouTube without a Google+ account and if you want your picture next to your blog article on a search, you need to use Google+ for that too.
Have you ever truly been extorted? This is far from that.
Originally posted by SProdigy: Google+ is an extortion scheme by Google to get you to sign up for the service. You can barely do anything on YouTube without a Google+ account and if you want your picture next to your blog article on a search, you need to use Google+ for that too.
Have you ever truly been extorted? This is far from that.
LOL it's an expression. You're basically forced to use Google+ in order to benefit from any of Google's other services. It's akin to Microsoft trying to brand everything with Skype now.
Or yahoo forcing yahoo mail on me for using messenger... or Microsoft forcing Live mail on me for using a win8 machine... or ... well, you get the picture.
If you don't like Google + don't use it. I'm sure Facebook would love to have you back.
Originally posted by ThePastor: Or yahoo forcing yahoo mail on me for using messenger... or Microsoft forcing Live mail on me for using a win8 machine... or ... well, you get the picture.
If you don't like Google + don't use it. I'm sure Facebook would love to have you back.
It's not my personal use that's in question. I'm a web developer and in order to practically use YouTube for a client, you have to create a Google+ page for them... but don't confuse that with a Google+ profile which is different. Connect to the wrong one and you're against the Google+ TOS. Connect the wrong one and you end up creating/deleting several times... you have to have a profile first in order to create a page as well. It's a cluster.
For SEO, if you want your name and picture next to a blog article you write, the blogger has to have a Google+ profile and that has to be connected to your blog/website.
