Changes in management and product direction The company replied that the significance of Google+ was less as a Facebook competitor than as a means of gathering and connecting user information from Google's various services. In February 2014, The New York Times likened Google+ to a ghost town, citing Google's stated 540 million "monthly active users" and noting that almost half did not visit the site. In March 2013, average time spent on the site had increased but remained low, at about 7 minutes according to Nielsen (not including traffic from apps). Google+'s user engagement was lower than that of its competitors ComScore estimated that the average amount of time spent by users on the site during the month of January 2012 amounted to only 3.3 minutes, while on Facebook this metric was over 136 times greater, at 7.5 hours. Some 300 million monthly active users participated in the social network by interacting with the Google+ social-networking stream. In October 2013, approximately 540 million monthly active users used the social layer by interacting with Google+'s enhanced properties, such as Gmail, the +1 button, and YouTube comments. At the end of 2011, Google+ had 90 million users. According to ComScore, the biggest market was the United States followed by India.
In October 2011, the service had 40 million users, according to Larry Page. In 2011, Google+ had 10 million users two weeks after the launch. According to Ars Technica, Google+ signups were "often just an incidental byproduct of signing up for other Google services." Consequently, the reported number of active users on Google+ grew significantly, but the average time users spent on the site was a small fraction of that on comparable social media services. Growth Īssessments of Google+ growth varied widely, because Google first defined the service as a social network, then later as "a social layer across all of Google's services", allowing them to share a user's identity and interests. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg instituted a company-wide "lockdown", signaling that employees were supposed to dedicate time to bringing Facebook's features into line with Google+. Īccording to a 2016 book by a former Facebook employee, some leaders at Facebook saw Google's foray into social networking as a serious threat to the company.
Features included the ability to post photos and status updates to the stream or interest-based communities, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends") into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text and video chat called Hangouts, events, location tagging, and the ability to edit and upload photos to private cloud-based albums. Google+ was the company's fourth foray into social networking, following Google Buzz (introduced 2010, retired in 2011), Google Friend Connect (introduced 2008, retired by March 2012), and Orkut (introduced in 2004, as of 2013 operated entirely by subsidiary Google Brazil – retired in September 2014 ).
Google plus photos search android#
You can also search these photos directly from Google+ Photos.Įarlier this week, Android Police lauded this search ability as " Google+'s best unadvertised feature" and as long as you keep most of your photos on Google+ or in the Google Drive ecosystem, that's absolutely true. Searching for "my photos of food" or "my photos from Orlando" will provide results tailored for those specific instances. The system actually uses machine learning so that you can target your queries to be more specific.
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