#7 – Google Cares About Google+: June, 2011
Many people forget that back in June of the year 2011, Google invented an Internet concept called, sharing, with their Google +social network. The move was both audacious and mediocre all at once. It turns out that many people were already enjoying sharing on a rival social network called, Facebook.
Google + doesn’t have much of a following outside the SEO world where true believers know that Google + shares still matter a lot…to Google rankings.
It was a surprising, and rare, misstep for a company that dominates the Internet.