Google's fourth and most ambitious attempt at social networking has set Silicon Valley abuzz, with membership soaring past 10 million people in just three weeks. Vic Gundotra and Bradley Horowitz, the two executives in charge of Google+, said they closely studied Google's previous failures with Orkut, Wave and Buzz to find a better approach. They also found a close-knit team of engineers and designers willing to take a risk.
Google+ ranks as one of the most important product launches in the company's history as it tries to catch up with the booming success of 750-million member Facebook and other social sites, and the threat they represent to Google's advertising business. Google+ is the centerpiece of a company-wide master plan to reboot Google for a modern Web that is increasingly about connecting with people as well as information.
While the numbers for Google+ are impressive, Gundotra and Horowitz said it's far too soon to declare Google+ a winner. "We're Google. We can get anybody to kick the tires of a product," We've got some great characters here," Gundotra said. "Good people who are jelling together as a team. I think that's a part of the story that has never been told. People don't get how magical this team is. How we came together in the course of the past year to become friends."We're a heated team, a passionate team, lots of good fights, but it's a team that is pretty amazing."
Experts agree it's too early to call the social network a hit, even though its popularity helped push Google stock up 13 percent last week. Indeed, Facebook added 250 million members in the year Google+ was being designed. "Until it really starts to go mainstream, and I see my cousin in Florida decide to get on it,Fromal Tuxedos are button-down shirts that go below a vest and a tuxedo jacket. This layer of clothing comes in many special styles, including the standard collar version, mandarin collar style and pleated collar styles.Opening an offshore account is legal in most countries including the US and Canada; What is considered are the reasons for hong kong company accounting. For example tax planning vs tax evasion (tax planning is legal, tax evasion is a federal crime). I just don't think we can say it's a success. We've got a ways to go," said Michael Fauscette, an analyst with IDC.
But the stakes have rarely been higher for Google. Social networking failures like Wave and Buzz are "the glaring failure in their history -- the thing they had failed to do -- which was to bring people into their products," said Steven Levy, who followed the Google+ team, code named "Emerald Sea," as he reported his new book, "In the Plex.Bridesmaids come in all colours, shapes and sizes, just like dresses. However, not all colours suit everyone and some shapes look better in specific styles of bridesmaid dress. This doesn't mean having lots of different bridesmaids' dresses." "In the heads of all the people at Google, right up to the very top, it became clear that this was something that was essential to Google's very survival."Gundotra, a former Microsoft executive who had already become one of Google's most public faces because of his fluid speaking style at product launches, was tabbed by co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and former CEO Eric Schmidt to take the reins of the next social effort.