{"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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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. Its very common for advertising for products to have several logos at the end: usually one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[773,297,1397,675,296,392],"class_list":["post-2435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-advertisement","tag-facebook","tag-google-plus","tag-social-media","tag-television","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-Dh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}