Google To Shut Down Google Buzz, iGoogle and Google Labs

Google has finally decided to shut down its Google Buzz project after introducing its social feature in February 2010. Google Buzz was one of the first steps of Google towards social networking arena and after learning the goods and bads from Google Buzz, Google launched its new Social Networking platform called Google+ in late June 2011, which is considering the one of the successor of Google in social networking arena.

According to the Official Google Blog, �In a few weeks we�ll shut down Google Buzz and the Buzz API, and focus instead on Google+, written by Google vice president of product "Bradley Horowitz". The site more said that "While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their existing content on their Google Profile, and download it using Google Takeout."

Its good for Google to shutdown Google Buzz to focus more on Google+ because Google Buzz was not providing the online presence of Google into Social Networking arena. Google announced earlier this week that Google+ has 40 million users, and it seems now is the time to shut down Google Buzz.

In addition of Google Buzz shut down news, the company more said that they are going to close their Code Search project on January 15, 2012. (The feature let users search for open source code on the Internet). Google also said that they will also shut down other Social Media Features includes, Jaiku (Twitter Look alike), iGoogle�s social feature for Google Search and Google Labs will also be shut down on same date.

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How Google Plus Brand Pages Will Be Better Than Facebook Pages?

Changing Facebook�s millions of users to Google Plus will extent, difficult to fight for giant search. Perhaps changing brand to Google Plus would be much easier if Google Plus is able to solve advertisers� huge difficulties with Facebook like as post-click arrangement follow, paid search lack in efficiencies and specific customization.

Advertisers move paid media to their Facebook Pages they wanted to be in front of their audience, perhaps there is a bulk of imperfection in this plan. Without such information, we can only imagine whether media dollars are well spent.

In one or two month, Google Plus will launch its highly appreciated brand pages. These are 4 reasons that marketers have right to be happy and why Google Plus brand pages would deliver a better branded experience than Facebook.

Better Search Opportunities:

The slow CTR makes for a small quality score in Google�s bidding sample, which distinctically increases cost per click for paid search addsmoving to Facebook competes a unique brand domain. 

More Customization:

Facebook ads are the limits to some other ads, certainly with a video or vote, allowing for some branding or creative opportunities. 

Better Analytics:

People who uses Google analysis how much is the data, including metrics like time consumed on page, main content, referring sites and geographical information. It looks affordable for Google to integrate Google�s analysis into Google Plus brand pages.

Google Can Learn from Facebook:

Facebook�s achieved and misconfigure steps offer invaluable moral, giving Google second-drive pros in making a brand page based on brands need for much more customization. Facebook make new way on each connection between brands like musicians and celebrities.

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Most Popular Social Sharing Plugin Button for Websites and Blogs

BirghtEdge has published a new report which is about the Most Popular Social Sharing Plugin of websites and blogs, In that report the website includes top 10,000 websites and their adoption of social sharing plugins. The report compared the data from June 2011 and July 2011; show that Facebook and Twitter are both doing very well. Facebook has a clear edge though, while Google already shows signs of being able to seriously compete and can beat other social platform. Google+ surely has had a potential since it�s launched to compete in market.

Google +1 social sharing button is already more common on websites and blogs as compare to the Twitter �tweet� button. The report states that after analyzing the 10,000 largest websites, 450 of them had the +1 button compared to only 340 for Twitter. Facebook is still the dominant force in the market with 2,000 sites using some form of the �Like� button. In terms of the overall number of links out to the various social sites, Facebook leads the way with 47.4 percent of the top 10,000 websites including a link to Facebook directly on their homepage. Twitter has 41.8 percent, YouTube has 16.75 percent, and LinkedIn has 3.7 percent. 

According to the latest social plugin comparison includes Google+ the report is very much familiar that Facebook offers four plugins: Facebook Like button (10.8 percent), Facebook Like box (6.1 percent), Facebook Connect (1.9 percent), and Facebook Recommendations (1.2 percent). It�s not too much of a shocker that Facebook is dominating this scene. Not only does the social network offer the most options, but it has been offering plugins for much longer than its competitors. Google +1 button (4.5 percent) is already ahead of the Twitter Tweet button (2.1 percent) and the Twitter Follow button (1.3 percent). Google+ is still in its infancy stages, it�s impressive that they�ve already taken over Twitter in terms of easily liking content on the Internet.

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