Discovering Why Google+ Is So Great

Unless you’ve been living on a technology-free desert island for the last 15 years, you’ve almost certainly heard about Google.

The famously playful company created the world’s first truly useful search engine, cataloging and ranking the web (now over a trillion pages). Chances are that whenever you want to find something online, you Google it.

People are migrating to Google+ from other social networking services, such as Facebook and Twitter, or at least integrating it with their other social networking sites. While Facebook still has the edge in raw numbers (over 800 million active users), Google+ is getting bigger by the day. Unofficial Google+ statistician Paul Allen has predicted Google+ will have over ...

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