{"id":2435,"date":"2012-07-21T23:38:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T04:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2435"},"modified":"2012-07-21T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T04:38:45","slug":"google-plus-is-missing-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2012\/07\/21\/google-plus-is-missing-opportunities","title":{"rendered":"Google Plus is missing opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I’m in the USA, if I get the time, I do like to consume some television. I’m an odd person – I’m usually watching the advertisements more than the television shows themselves. And the promotions that surround shows.<\/p>\n

Its very common for advertising for products to have several logos at the end: usually one from facebook with the page name, and another from twitter with the page name. Nowadays it seems to be getting common to offer a hashtag and this I presume is just useful for Twitter. (though it seems trending data now on google+ also has hashtags.)<\/p>\n

Today, for the first time I saw an ad for Google Plus. Used by a television show called sullivan & son<\/a>. They advertised a facebook page<\/a>\u00a0and told fans to “search google plus for sullivan & son”. For a google hangout<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n

I searched Google for sullivan & son and ironically the Google+ page (which has a horrible URL<\/a>) wasn’t even on the front-page. Google is clearly missing an opportunity here.<\/p>\n

Two opportunities:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. short-form URLs (like what gplus.to<\/a> provides – in fact you have the option to do profiles.google.com\/username if it is not a page, but your own profile)<\/li>\n
  2. promoting Google+ profile pages in search results<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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