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Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Senior V.P. Vic Gundotra told Google + meteoric rise of social networks to over 40 million users a month after the launch in public beta has exceeded expectations the company's internal and vowed to make aliases for users.
Gundotra, who led Google + term for the ago 1 and a half yrs, appeared alongside Google's Sergey Brin Co-founder at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on October 19. Web 2.0 Summit Co-host John Battelle asked him if he was pleased with the rapid adoption by users.
Gundotra said he is happy with Google + Quick start "- users also shared more than 3.4 billion photos in 100 days - but he acknowledged that his team has much to do.
+ Google, the search provider agrees rival Facebook in the war to attract the attention of users. Incumbent network Facebook has over 800 million users, some of which use the service on average 8 hours per month. That's a lot of clicks eyeballs, time and announced that Google does not receive.
Brin, noting that it "is not a very social person himself" and has not spent much time on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks, said that while he initially thought the circles sharing building wishful also complicated to apply, it's instantly compelling + Google user experience. It makes the public and private messages.
Gundotra said that Brin was intimately involved in the design of social network, including Google + Hangouts, without the service network video chat for up to 10 users. Brin said he was actually sarcastic about his enthusiasm for Hangouts and admitted he was wrong about how the service should work.
Battelle then raised the point that if he met fellow Google +, family members is reluctant to join. He noted that when venture capitalists Sean Parker talked Monday with the issue, he told it was hard to vie with network effects, users get their friends and move to new platforms. It's Google + universal challenge in a nutshell.
Gundotra said Parker is good in terms of challenging the incumbent at his own game He added that Google is trying to act another game, supported the basis of Google user process, which is distributed over Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and other services. Many of these users are connected through their Google accounts or profiles, which are the connective tissue to Google +.
