With the internet giant's social network attracting about 20 million visitors in the initial three weeks and nearly half of these visitors hailing from US and India, Google Plus, not even a month old is gaining popularity in the much dominated space by Facebook.

According to estimates by research firm ComScore, Google Plus had 19.93 million unique visitors between June 29 and July 19 period



The top two countries in this estimate are the US and India. Of the 19.93 million visitors, 5.31 million were from the US and 2.85 million from India. Another 0.87 million users came from the UK, 0.71 million from Germany and 0.50 million from France.

Google Plus lets users post photos, messages, comments and other content from a selected groups of friends. The service was started as a field trial and the project is by invitation only, which means people can join only if a current member invites them. Eventually, Google plans to incorporate features of Google Plus in its other services, such as its YouTube video site. The service has features like 'Circles', 'Sparks', 'Hangouts' and 'mobile' are proving to be different and refreshing.

Through Circles, Google targets Facebook's features in which a user's information is shared by default with a large number of his or her friends including their work colleagues and acquaintances, rather than only their close personal friends.

Its "Huddle" feature lets users send text messages to several different people at once, known as group texting.

In no time this new chip on the block ha proved its metal, Google knows the tact of the trade very well which is definitely coming handy in pushing this augment. Based on article published in ET.




article published in ET.