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‘Search, plus Your World’ – Google’s Personalized Answer to Searches

You may have noticed Google have been rolling out A LOT of changes to their services lately, notably YouTube mega updates and the search engine's visual revamp - mostly in accordance with their latest attempt at a social network - Google+. And now they continue with the exciting addition of 'Search, plus Your World', a feature which integrates your Google+ account, its friends and its posts, etc. into each ...

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Google+ hits 62 million users!

Google+ hits 62 million users! It appears that Google's foray into the social-networking game is steadily on the up, according to 'Paul Allen', who has been releasing estimates ever since Google+ launched back in June of this year. The service has now reached over 62 million users. The figure is up from 43 million Google Plusers in December and if the growth continues at this rate, Google+ could see the 100 ...

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Google Plus Quick review after 12 hours of use!

So you might have read my colleagues' post on his first impressions, this is my further impressions and is by a long way not complete. So here it goes! Google Plus is a fusion between twitter and Facebook, with none of the features of each missing. In fact the circles allow you to follow your interests or celebrities, or people in your field, in my case Ryan Block and Josh Topolsky. Circles make it millions ...

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Google Plus — First Impressions

Hey Gadget Core readers, Will got into Google Plus and he was kind enough to invite me in. I've been trying it out and I am going to be sharing some quick (and I mean quick) first impressions of Google Plus. Firstly, it's so simple. In a similar vein to Facebook, sharing is easy, photos, videos, links, places and almost anything is available to share with others at the click of an icon. Adding people to you ...

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The most followed user of Google+ is…

Mark Zuckerberg, after a publicity stunt Zuckerberg became as user on Google+ and more-over is now the most followed person. TechCrunch reports: In what has to be somewhat embarrassing for Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+, according to the Google+ Statisticscounter. The Facebook CEO has 21,213 followers, compared to the Google CEO at 14,798, Googl ...

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How could Facebook Survive if Google Plus did become popular?

How could Facebook survive if Google Plus takes off, and soon blasts the Facebook Ship to the bottom of the ocean. I know we've done loads of posts about Google Plus, but it the first decent competitor to the second largest site on the web, apart from the Google Monster. Obviously if people find the features compelling Facebook will want to copy them or at least introduce competitive features. How can they ...

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Google+ vs Facebook, Will the better product succeed?

Clearly after much analysis Google+ is a better product than that of Facebook, with long awaited features, many I really do need or else Facebook will slowly drive me crazy! But will users switch from Facebook to Google Plus? The migration from MySpace and Bebo to Facebook was quick and did slowly wreck the respective companies! After all Myspace sold for a weak $35million dollars, previously valued and sol ...

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Why Google+ is not Googley!

Some of you may have noticed that Google+ looks a bit different to Google's minimalistic online style, with simple Javascript and HTML, dominating the look. In fact the Google+ and even the Black tool Bar are a bit different and are a product of Former Mac Genius, Andy Hertzfeld, who previously designed the Mac UI from the early 70s to the late 80s. He had been working on this project for years, with his ow ...

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Have you got the Black Google Bar yet? With a profile!

Well I have got both, but still have no Google+. Unfortunately Google+ is by invite only as well as a few thousand lucky people. Furthermore the black bar at the top is slowly being rolled out. Is this the start of the Google Revolution or just another failure, only time will tell. ...

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