Google+ has overcome the 20 million barrier. What's next?

Original author: By Jared Newman, PCWorld
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The number of unique visits to Google+ has exceeded 20 million (according to ComScore ).

Google does not confirm these figures, but last week Larry Page said that the service is used by more than 10 million users who leave about 1 billion messages per day (including all kinds of sharing).

“I’ve never seen so much growth before,” said Andrew Lipsman, analyst at ComScore.

So what's next? It’s already clear that Google+ will not be such a failure as Buzz.

Business and Brand Pages

To the horror of companies and brands that want to use the fast-growing G + audience to increase traffic to their sites, Google imposes a restriction - the use of the G + account is only for personal purposes. Accounts that will be associated exclusively with the business will be banned.

It is reported that the G + platform is not yet designed to work with business, but Google assures that it will develop a separate system for business accounts.

In other words, faceless pages on G + with profiles of organizations containing only information about the company and links to its resources will be deleted. Product Manager Christian Ostlin recommends that companies use the profile of a real employee of the organization for this purpose, who will talk about it within their personal account and represent the company on their behalf.

Games

The fact that there will be games in G + is not a secret for anyone (see small hints for this in the source code and not only ).

Google is already investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Farmville and Zynga in general. It is reported that the game will be integrated into the Stream in such a way that your friends do not have to constantly receive notifications about the status of your farm (if they themselves do not want to).

Integration with other

G + services will be connected with other social services of Google, allowing users to share GoogleDocs, videos from YouTube and many others using Kroogi. While integration is limited to notifications in Gmail, Maps and a few more services, but over time the circle will expand.

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