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Google+ Sees Its 3rd Largest Week Since Launch http://searchengineland.com/report-google-sees-its-3rd-large...

G+ is bigger than Istagram and Foursquare combined yet Google bashing persists for some reason.

Having burnt several times more money and time (person years) in engineering and marketing, G+ can't smile about being bigger than Instagram!

Why not? it's younger than Intagram and one has to start somewhere. Also it's natural fit for Google, they have disparate social feature for disparate products and now they can unify them, it's mission isn't to kill Facebook.

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