Almost two months after its public debut, Google Plus has seen both highs and lows. Although there was some controversy surrounding the success of its public launch, Google Plus has launched a number of new features, some of which have been met with great fervor, others with mild displeasure.

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New Features Lead to Modest Growth for Google Plus

Embed this on your site Source: Comparison of the Top Three Search Engines: Bing+Yahoo > Google?  And now, for something completely obvious: Google owns the lion’s share of US search traffic.

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Last Tuesday, the Google Blog announced that Google+, which had been “invitation only,” was changing to “open access.” According to data from Experian Hitwise, since Google+ made the service publically available, Google has seen a 1269% increase in traffic to the social networking site. In the week following its public launch, Google+ increased to 15 million US visitors and increased its ranking to the 8 th most visited social networking site. However, during the same time period, Facebook continued to dominate Google+ with well over 1.7 billion visits.

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Google+ Reaches 50 Million Users

Less than a year ago, Google reportedly offered to buy Groupon for around $6 Billion. After Groupon declined the serious multi-billion dollar offer, Google decided to enter the daily deal marketplace by developing Google Offers

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Groupon in the Crosshairs: Google Offers Launches in Five New Cities

Google+ has only been around for six-and-a-half weeks, but has already earned the title of the fastest growing website. Some have written off Google’s success as a temporary side-effect of the Google brand, but recent HitWise data shows that Plus is already heading into the “early adopters” stage. Plus’s User-Base Transformation The chart above shows how Google’s user-base has changed since HitWise started tracking demographics (July 9th, approximately two weeks after launch).

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Google+ Seeing Increased Mainstream Adoption

It’s very difficult to get consistent figures on who  owns search. After all, what do we include? All page visits, or only ones that result in searches

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Microsoft Now Owns 30% of Search

New data this week from Hitwise shows Bing on a pretty impressive upswing in the search engine market share race. And while that’s definitely something worth pointing out and taking notice of, it’s not really earth-shattering. It’s definitely not a sign that Bing is about to overtake Google in the search marketplace, even though that’s exactly what Mashable seems to think

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Relax, People, Bing Isn’t Overtaking Google Anytime Soon

It’s been a challenging few years for retailers, both online and offline, but things are starting to look up. The 2010 holiday season saw more than a five percent growth when compared to the year prior

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Google Gives Online Holiday Shopping Details for 2010

Friends, online-video is going to be a fun storm in 2011 as the drama has just begun.

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Online Video Predictions For 2011: Are You Ready For The Storm?

Experian Hitwise has released a year-end report detailing the most-searched keyword phrases and most-visited websites of 2010.  Among the most interesting reveals is the declaration that Facebook overtook Google as the most-visited website.

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Facebook and YouTube Rise To The Top Most Search Keywords For 2010