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Zigurd · 2013-07-14 16:19:55

Well, that's totally worth doubling Google's headcount.

SeanAnderson | karma 3514 | avg karma 5.01 · | 2024-01-30 17:56:57

It is absolutely mind-boggling that a company as large as Google could increase their headcount by 62% in three years.

comboy | karma 5631 | avg karma 3.54 · | 2013-11-14 17:33:02

I can't believe I'm gonna write this, but in their defense, google user base had also likely doubled during that time.

IAmGraydon | karma 3725 | avg karma 2.96 · | 2021-12-29 08:06:03

That’s 1.7% of Google’s search volume, which is actually very impressive when you consider the grip Google has on search.

JangoSteve | karma 3385 | avg karma 3.6 · | 2017-10-31 22:08:50+00:00

To be fair, Google has a little more than 200 users.

jacksmith21006 | karma 1319 | avg karma 1.28 · | 2018-04-23 21:30:06+00:00

What? Google grew over 25%. Which is just accelerating as numbers get bigger.

diorray | karma 71 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2013-10-30 00:10:24+00:00

I think Google has expanded its team 37%

wongarsu | karma 24397 | avg karma 4.14 · | 2024-04-29 21:08:22

They hired a lot and employ roughly twice as many people as they did in 2018.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273744/number-of-full-ti...

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tko | karma | avg karma · | 2011-10-13 23:04:41+00:00

that is a huge gain....but how many of the 40 million users are still using Google+???

n_t | karma 675 | avg karma 5.23 · | 2017-10-10 22:55:54

As if they already don't have enough, feed more data in to Google.

dreamdu5t | karma 1914 | avg karma 1.43 · | 2011-07-26 04:06:12+00:00

They've got 100 million. That's enough to do amazing things.

Honestly, for all the money Google has, Google+ isn't very impressive.

Interestingly, about half of that 100 million comes from Google to secure their spot as the homepage and default search.

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kijin | karma 10374 | avg karma 2.8 · | 2012-04-03 20:57:03+00:00

At Google's scale, you might want to multiply that by a trillion or two.

zelag | karma 97 | avg karma 3.23 · | 2022-09-14 12:35:51

This is how you know Google has far too many people than they actually need.

KevanM | karma 222 | avg karma 2.39 · | 2015-05-06 11:29:12+00:00

I wonder how many googles they get for google.

pembrook | karma 8855 | avg karma 9.03 · | 2020-06-24 16:37:59

If you count on-site, full time contractors at Google you get closer to 250,000.

Give it time. My guess is Google will be well over 300,000 by 2030.

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esafak | karma 3619 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2023-07-01 14:47:19

That's twice as long as Google's average tenure.

nextparadigms | karma 17011 | avg karma 5.25 · | 2012-01-19 17:13:06

Google search has about 1 billion visitors per month. Turning 9% of them into Google+ users in 6 months is not too bad.

boomboomsubban | karma | avg karma · | 2023-02-24 08:02:56

The market has grown, I wouldn't be surprised if their amount of users has stayed similar for quite a few years now. Google pays per user, not per percent of market share.

astrange | karma 14132 | avg karma 1.32 · | 2021-06-03 03:29:51+00:00

Think the question is why Google has more.

FreeInFlorida | karma 30 | avg karma 3.0 · | 2018-12-10 19:56:15

Wait...

Google+ had 52 million users?

That should be the headline.

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