{"id":64867,"date":"2012-03-06T07:57:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2012-03-06T07:57:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T15:57:29","slug":"google-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/06\/google-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/03\/gplus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/03\/gplus.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gplus\" width=\"594\" height=\"227\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/28\/idUS85205411620120228\">Google+ Lags Far Behind Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in Latest Study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Google+ became the fastest growing social network within months of its debut last June, but a recent study casts doubt on whether most of its users are spending much time on the site.<\/p>\n<p>According to ComScore, <b>users spent an average of just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in the month of January<\/b>, a decline from its recent figures and a tiny sliver of Facebook\u2019s total.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I accept the argument of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/thoughtful-animal\/\">friends<\/a> that G+ and Facebook are fundamentally different, and that Google&#8217;s aim here is not to replicate Facebook. But I also think that this is well short of what Google was intending for G+ at this stage; otherwise they would surely have quashed the media bubble and hyperbole which crested last summer. G+ is obviously much better than Buzz. But that&#8217;s a low bar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/XcVU-EHlLRU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google+ Lags Far Behind Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in Latest Study: Google+ became the fastest growing social network within months of its debut last June, but a recent study casts doubt on whether most of its users are spending much time on the site. According to ComScore, users spent an average of just 3.3 minutes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65058,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64867\/revisions\/65058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}