By: Primary Position

Primary Position
Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:05:01 +0000

Hi Piers ? What an interesting blog post - and such a breath of fresh air. It's really well written but the stats are amazing. I want to congratulate you on the work you've done here! ? Just yesterday I was reading a piece in TechCrunch about how Pinterest was now bigger than Google Referral - but didn't conclude that actually Google Referral had doubled in the space that Pinterest had gone up 20% or that while pinterest was bigger than twitter, stumbleupon and Google referral, Google Organic was bigger than all of them combined plus direct and facebook too. ? I understand that a lot of people don't like Google/Search and/or SEO. I can understand why - there are so many terrible companies selling terrible services. But I think its just as a bad to pretend that something isn't good or doesn't work because they don't like it.? ? But this is really open, fair and factual. The number of facebook users doesn't make facebook a better or worse platform for users or marketing.? ? G+ is picking up momentum by some people who like what it provides. I spoke to one entrepreneur yesterday who said to me "I've just clicked, G+ is going to be enormous" ? I'd argue it already is - people just have to be moved from open search to Google account - which will immediately be G+.? ? But G+ is still in Y1/Y2 - Facebook is ancient by comparison. But Google and youtube and GMail are bigger by visitor number and volume. You can access G+ from GMail. you don't need to be on it.? ? Whatever happens - its going to be really interesting. And hard work.?