OMG!! It took a day for me to explore Google+ and here are some interesting things with the title Google Vs FaceBook. In the wake of Google’s announcement of their new social network, called Google Plus (or Google +), the inevitable question has been asked: Can it succeed given Google’s poor history with social networking? Pooh, When the most anticipated Google unleased its new Social networking called Google Plus( Google +) whole world started to review it because Google failed its technolgy when it tried social networking with orkut , wave and Google Buzz. What i personally like is Google called it as a project and not as a product.
While many have compared the Google plus with the Face book in terms of functions and features, i have a new option. Google Plus is not the new facebook, It’s the grown-up Facebook. Perhaps this makes it the anti-Facebook. Many compares with only facebook, but in actual it contains all the attracting features of all social networks. Google+ is both a social layer and a full-fledged social network.Users will find a new navigation bar, complete with new sharing options. Streams, hangouts, circles, spraks are new grabbing features in home page. which leads to the Google+ homepage, where users can access their friend streams, share and edit multimedia, create group video chats and more.
In a single line if u want me to answer what is Google+ then this is the answer, Google Plus: Smells like Google, looks like Facebook, tastes like Apple.
I found the first difference in look is the +1 button in google+ and like button in Face Book. The second difference is in purpose Google +1 is used for recommending a webpage and Facebook like is for sharing a webpage. So Google +1 maintains a count of these +1 s and I hope will start using it even for giving ranking to search results. Not just that if you are searching for some stuff on Google and if your friends have done +1 it will appear in the search result and you will automatically come to know your friends indirect recommendations.
This is not just applicable to webpages but also Google Ads. When you do Facebook like, of course it is shared to all your Facebook friends and Facebook like also maintains a count of how many people like your page.
I found many users and friends started to speak Plus button concept is copied from like button of Face Book.Actually it is not.My inital thought is yes it looks like Google has adopted if not copied the concept of recommendation only thing is the purpose is slightly different. Google is going to use this data to actually start giving priority to its search results as soon as this feature stats getting more and more popular.Till date Google decides search ranking based on its Pagerank algorithm.
Advantages of Google +1 to Google:
To recommend a person will have to create Google account so increase in accounts is one thing. Google has also included Ads in plus one. People will think these Ads are more genuine and hence go ahead and click them in turn increasing Google's revenue. A more human way of indexing and not totally based on non human AI based smart Google algorithm. A big advantage that Google has over Facebook at the moment is that it already supports a rich ecosystem of mobile games through the Android platform. Even though Facebook easily has the most popular smartphone apps in the world, it hasn’t been able to make as many in-roads in terms of becoming a platform for third-party mobile apps. The company is prepping an HTML5 platform for mobile applications, but it’s too early for me to tell if this will work.
Indirectly it ll surely affect other search engines and e-mail site because if anyone want to in google+ obviously they should have a google Account so it gives more revenue and popularity. The attracting feauture in Google is fast chatting, removing history of chats and video chats which will surely grabs the users and gains populartiy when games and Google+ mobile comes which is coming soon.
Google+ : The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Good:
- Better Privacy,
- Huddles,
- Hangouts,
- Media,
- Mobile,
- Integration of various google products,
- gmail Notificatios
The Bad:
- complexity to understand for new users,
- invitation,
- people and circles if multiple profiles,
- chat-only connected with contacts
The Ugly:
- The Name Google +.
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