Comments on: The Best Blog Post on Google +1 you will ever read

By: Karn

Karn — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:32:28 +0000

What Google has going for it:

1) The huge customer base to streamline Google+
2) The insane talent of its employees
3) An empty slate from which to build off of
4) Already unique ideas with more to come
5) Taking Facebook’s idea and starting by inviting an exclusive group of users

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 05:44:59 +0000

I agree, Google +1 will fail. They don’t have a bigger enough or organized enough social network to make it succeed. Facebook does, so I cannot really see +1 being a serious competitor to Facebooks Like button.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:40:35 +0000

Yes, but I say that Google as whole will fail if they don’t succeed in social media.

By: jezza101

jezza101 — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:39:22 +0000

I would guess it is less to do with server resources and more to do with the people behind it having a chance to monitor how things are going. Opening the floodgates would make things far harder to manage and unfortunately human resources don’t scale so easily as computers!

A colleague of mine who has an invite was showing me round the site and, I’m no google fan boy, I have to say it looked good.

There is always a place for competition in my opinion.

Not sure I’ll be using +1, just never really got into that kind of thing – Google or otherwise. Is there a way to switch it off?!

By: Andrew from Passive Profiteer

Andrew from Passive Profiteer — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:20:02 +0000

Suspended invites due to overwhelming response? That’s sounds like marketing horseshit to me. Since when was Google too small to handle any number of sign-ups? Give me a break.

By: Gugel

Gugel — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:04:31 +0000

Google had to temporarily suspend giving out invites to Google+ due to an overwhelming response. It looks like it has some traction, but who knows how it will play out in the long-term.

By: James Thoenes

James Thoenes — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:29:50 +0000

Google +1 and Google+ are two different parts of the same thing. When you say Google +1 as a social network will fail. you’re mixing up the social enhanced search with the social network (Google+).
That said, Google+ really does fix most of my complaints about Facebook (privacy and lack thereof, security and lack thereof, respect for the user and lack thereof).
I think Google will hit this one out of the park.

By: Ian Cowley

Ian Cowley — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:57:37 +0000

“Google can buy Twitter whenever it realises it can’t do social, so why try too hard” I agree that Google should just buy Twitter and embed it in all it’s other services. In areas other than search they have always entered the market through acquisition of a technology/service provider.

By: Andrew Scherer @ Passive Profiteer

Andrew Scherer @ Passive Profiteer — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:50:52 +0000

@Tad Chef He’s not saying Google as a whole is going to fail, just their copy cat projects.

Reason 5 is pretty much the reason, IMO, that it’s going to do the Wave.

By: Tad Chef

Tad Chef — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:44:43 +0000

I disagree. I think Google is like a bank by now. They are too big to fail. They have to succeed in social or it will lead to their demise in the long term. So even as it might seem right now that Google+/+1 are bound to fail like all the other Google social services this time it’s a matter of life and death. They will fight to the end.

By: Andrew Burnett

Andrew Burnett — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:30:02 +0000

Be interesting to see how it unfolds, but it does seem to only be the SEO crowd (and some PR-but-desperately-wanna-be-SEOs) that are getting excited about it.

Personally, I laughed blood yesterday as every Tom, Dick and Harry (but especially Dick) wrote about Google plus, without ever having used it.