In today’s quarterly earnings call, Google CEO, Larry Page, has revealed for the first time details regarding the user adoption of its new social networking platform Google+.
Paul Allen, founder of Ancestry.com, has been publishing his own estimates about the number of Google+ users on Google+ itself. According to his new estimate there are now more than 10 million users today. This can make Google+ the fastest growing web product.
Today Google has announced an update to the Android Market which brings about a complete overhaul in the looks. With the update, the Android Market looks much much better – although comparison will be drawn with the Metro UI of Windows Phone 7.
Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Manager at Google, has said that Android is the Linux dream come true. He described Android as "the ultimate success story of Linux".
With Google+ knocking at the door, Facebook can recognize a tool, that users can use to break away from Facebook’s aim of locking them in Facebook, when it sees one. So, Facebook did what they did to Facebook Friend Exporter – they banned Open-Xchange’s tool despite the fact that it did not violate anything.
A few days back, we reported that Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites. Today James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC, has taken to the Google Webmaster Forum saying that Google made a mistake because 99.99% of the co.cc websites are clean. He also commented that Google ought to remove Blogspot and Facebook if they want to be fair.