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by cromwellian 4684 days ago
Shareholders don't care about G+, Facebook's IPO and returns have already shown them that search advertising is way better and social network ads are not the real threat that was sold.

What Wall Street looks at is search and display ads. Reporting 400 million active G+ users wouldn't do anything, anymore than 700 million GMail users, 750 million Chrome users, Android with 80% of the market. None of those really drive any direct revenue. (GMail does, but not much)