[ry0ohki]

The rapid growth of Google Plus compared to Facebook isn't really a valid comparison. When you are the number one site on the Internet (probably #1 or #2 email provider too?) and you add a new black bar to every page letting people know about your service, it's no surprise you gain X million users overnight. I agree with your thoughts that it's too early to count G+ as a failure just yet, but something about their rollout did cause it to lose steam. Most of my Facebook friends are aware G+ exists now... they just don't know why they should check it in addition to Facebook. It's the same problem any future search competitor has to Google, you have to be an order of magnitude better for people to switch.

[ary]

We agree. Hence my statement:

> The comparisons aren't really that important (to me at least).

[bostonvaulter2]

IIRC correctly Yahoo mail is still a larger provider of email addresses than gmail, maybe hotmail too.