Comments on: Why Google’s screwup on Google+ brand pages is a big deal

By: DJ. Perez

DJ. Perez — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 06:53:11 +0000

Hmm, google+ is already helping in some huge ways. Is generating traffic to people’s sites or in other cases to their business websites.
So, when it comes down to having a business profile on Google+ is just going to have be on thier time and terms.

By: Joanna

Joanna — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:28:15 +0000

People want to be associated with brands and want to do business online. Google may actually have a plan for business pages that addresses various issues with Facebook fan pages. The have tried to roll this out slowly by restricting to invitation only, imagine how fast it would have been without that. Maybe we should wait and see what the full plan is before we judge it.

And we do all have a choice – we don’t have to connect with businesses on any of these platforms. We could just use it to chat to our friends. I have no idea if there are any figures that tell us how many are just doing that but I bet it’s not many.

By: MrPlazmaDude

MrPlazmaDude — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:14:44 +0000

By: DK

DK — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:02:46 +0000

I think a lot of people forgot that Google Plus is still at Beta and invite only. Give them some time to figure out what’s the best way to present a corporate page on Google Plus.

By: Computer Support

Computer Support — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 06:09:22 +0000

Its just amazing to see how google plus has managed to reach this number of users in just a small time…Personally its really a good social media tool but people still find facebook more friendly

By: Freddie

Freddie — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 21:26:51 +0000

Mathew, thank you (as always) for your solid coverage. It seems most people responding to this Google+ gaffe as either non-interested or kowtowing and treating Google as “god”-like. The fact is that Google is a publicly held company and that means they are in the big leagues (this isn’t little league Stanford grad school start up land anymore). Its clear as day that Google failed strategically and did not think through ex ante the probability of business interest with expoentnial Google+ growth curves. Why aren’t more people calling out Larry Page who, as CEO, is the fall guy, after booting Eric Schmidt who they originally brought in for “adult supervision” and strategy? There is zero reason why Google+ should have had to renege the G+ business offering. If they had thought this through ahead of time strategically, they would never have gotten the hopes up of thousands of people. Why didn’t Google dogfood by using its own technology to process the voluminous business applications that it received and easily could have predicted it would receive? Isn’t Google known for hiring allegedly smart geniuses after asking job applicants cute little puzzles like “how many golf balls can fit in a school bus”? How embarrassing for Larry Page and his school bus of brainiacs who seemed to concern themselves more with creating Circles than understanding strategy and risk. Here comes the FTC?

By: Toney

Toney — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:20:01 +0000

Google is going to take over the world, resistance is futile

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:23:43 +0000

I remember when I was creating personal accounts on facebook for businesses long before they had “business” pages. Not really a big deal…this will all settle in time.

By: Feuerschale

Feuerschale — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:06:41 +0000

So how can Google not attract such comments and reactions. It is the nature of its position that has created this situation. Has Google really prevented competiton in the search market. If so it would not be the first and it would have to go a long way to be the worst (just ask MS) But is it fair to judge the significance of their misteps simply by the magnitude of the shadow they cast over the internet?

By: KZT

KZT — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:35:47 +0000

I don’t understand; the blogs broke an embargo. What do they expect to happen? Some kind of special treatment?