{"id":53,"date":"2011-07-07T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2016-12-09T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T14:12:42","slug":"google-reviews-why-early-adopters-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cognitiveseo.com\/blog\/53\/google-reviews-why-early-adopters-love-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ Reviews: Why Early Adopters Love it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like most average\u00a0people out there Google hasn’t yet let me test the new social network\u00a0Google+. Only tech pundits, influencers, social media mavens and other early adopters have been allowed to use G+ at the beginning. <\/em><\/p>\n

Thus I have to trust their reviews of the Google+<\/strong> service.\u00a0Google’s tactic of allowing only cheerleaders in has seemingly paid off. Most reviews are positive. Why? There are different reasons. Let me cite some of them.<\/p>\n

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Gina Trapani of SmarterWare<\/a><\/p>\n

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what I appreciate most about Google+ is that it’s a well-thought out product informed by past experience. The more I use Google+, the more I see just how many lessons Google learned from Wave and Buzz<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Lisa Myers on State of Search<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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the BIG difference between facebook and Google + is that you can categorise your sharing. For me this is a BIG plus (haha get it? Plus), as I have a lot of things that I want to share with my SEO friends and colleagues but that I don\u2019t necessarily want to share with my family and friends<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Louis Gray<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Some first users of Google+ today commented about the similarities of it to FriendFeed, with nested comments, lists and real time at the core. But honestly, it’s the opposite. FriendFeed launched as a major aggregator, supporting dozens of sites. Google+ starts with just one. It’s refreshing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Colin Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I suggested that, unlike even Orkut or Buzz, +1 could be the first offering to really cement social in the mind of Google users and now, within the context of Plus, the +1 makes even more sense and is as simple to grasp and use as Facebook\u2019s \u201cLike\u201d button<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sean Percival<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A major thing it has going for it is the UI and design. It\u2019s really well done. Using Circles, Google\u2019s way to sort and organize friends, makes Goodle+ very intuitive and even, dare I say, fun to use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Nate Elliott from Forrester Blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In fact, as a consumer I love the circles idea. One of the smartest things about Orkut when it launched\u00a07 years ago was its recognition \u2014\u00a0then unique in social networking \u2014\u00a0that not every friend is equal. Google makes the point that in real life we don’t share the same information with everyone we know \u2014 and that our online social networks should work the same way as our offline ones. And that’s undoubtedly true<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Mario Sundar of Marketing Nirvana<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Google Plus is a curious amalgam of Facebook and Twitter but more interestingly this is the same model that Friendfeed pioneered (with far slicker tools: \u201clike\u201d and \u201creal-time feed\u201d anyone).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Fred Wilson of AVC.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My dad might like Google+. It’s a lot like email. He can curate groups of friends; his friends from school, his friends from the army, his friends from the community he lives in, and share information with them quickly and easily<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Facebook makes communicating with specific groups and lists of friends really, really difficult. Google has opted for a more open model: Google+ follows you around in Google-land, and Circles let you use any + feature but confine your message to specific groups of friends<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Chris Brogan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The key things going on inside Google+ so far are sharing stuff, where the interesting factor rules, and conversations, where the ability to keep an interesting and participatory conversation matters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jessica Van Sack of Biz Smart<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The great hope of many who begrudgingly use Facebook is that Google+ will have a better privacy policy (i.e. won\u2019t change your settings without notice, won\u2019t give your information to advertisers). If so, some privacy stalwarts may kill their Facebook accounts and switch to the nascent Google+ platform. To be sure, it\u2019s a good platform. But that\u2019s because it\u2019s so much like Facebook.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Robert Scoble<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Come on now, we geeks and early adopters and social media gurus need a place to talk free of folks who think Justin Bieber is the second coming of Christ. That\u2019s what we have in Google+ right now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Liz Gannes on All Things Digital<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem by Making Friending Very Complicated<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Greg Finn on Search Engine Land<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Facebook is often critiqued for their dubious privacy changes, and Google seems to be catering to those unhappy users with easy to use privacy options in one location.\u00a0\u00a0 Deleting an account is straightforward, so is deleting social features. This may appeal to some disgruntled Facebookers, drawing them\u00a0 to use Google+.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rob D Young on Search Engine Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Google starts with a highly attractive design. Using their expertise in HTML 5 and,\u00a0according to<\/a> Bradley\u00a0Horrowitz, \u201cAndy\u00a0Hertzfeld, the original Mac guy,\u201d the Google+ team has created an interface that\u2019s smooth, simple, and attractive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So apparently there are plenty of good reasons to use Google+, at least for early adopters. To be honest I personally\u00a0don’t like Google+. Why? I have been invited by at least a dozen people but each time I want to start to use it I get the same message that I can’t. Who is masochistic enough to endure such\u00a0“user experience”?<\/em><\/p>\n

I tried several times just because I need to use G+ for my work as a blogger and SEO. An average user would simply\u00a0assume that it doesn’t work and probably never return.<\/p>\n

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