Hey Mashable. I think you can drop the google Buzz button now.

April 27th, 2010 • Social, Tech, Tools

I don’ t want to say, I told you so. But I told you so. Nobody gives a rat’s ass about google’s twitter killer social network thing that is not as cool as the other things with massive privacy flaws. Chitika has the figures:

February 9th, 2010 – the day Buzz was launched – the search engines lit up with queries.  The Chitika network saw about 1,500 searches that day for the term “Google Buzz,” approximately 15 times the number of searches for “Twitter.”

By the 15th, searches for the service had dwindled to less than ten a day, and since February 26th there has been a constant stream of one search per day.

Finally I want to add an artwork which I have created from share buttons on mashable’s homepage. I think we can drop the google buzz button now, can we?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/criebling Christoph Riebling

    Brilliant!

  • ghensel

    Maybe @mashable thinks so too. Who knows?

  • http://twitter.com/frogpond Martin Koser

    You're joking, right? Because only a fool would judge a service by how many searches are made for it (yes, buzz is in my inbox, so no need to search for it, thanks) – nor would anybody count the buzzes made from the site itself. A lot of people are buzzing right from their RSS feeds etc.

    Try to get a grip on the conversations that are happening on buzz – that may be a better indicator of usefulness. </rant>

  • ghensel

    Thank you. I love this type of trollesque replies. But you are right – the search for a tool like google buzz is not relevant in comparison to the conversations happening there. But as you can see in my little artwork – the buzz button is not in use at all. If there is any use for buzz then it is its role as a connector for google reader. Active conversations do not seem to happen.

  • http://twitter.com/frogpond Martin Koser

    Please, Gerald – check out buzz for yourself and see what kind of conversations are happening. Yes,buzz is what you make of it, ie. if you're only channeling tweets into it nobody will care or react. Engage in conversations and wonderful things happen. See, I have participated in a a lot of VERY active and fruitful conversations and thus enjoy my buzz quite a lot.

    ps. I admit to commenting in a trollesque way, over the mark, yes, but it felt so good then ;)

  • ghensel

    Well! Feel free to like google Buzz. I just think there are not very many people following your example. Indeed at a certain point in time I did also like buzz, unfortunately it did not come with enought innovation power to replace Facebook or twitter. And you simply do not need another tool which does the same…

  • http://twitter.com/frogpond Martin Koser

    Hmm, #buzz certainly does a lot more than Twitter for me (try having a conversation on Twitter ;) , is way more trustworthy than Facebook and it sure doesn't need to have the big numbers to be of interest for me. I don't think it's just another tool that replicates stuff, this is more original and part of a bigger picture.

    Then, I really don't see why a 3 month-old service that is rapidly evolving is already deemed not innovative enough. Sounds really german too me (and we're in this same boat).

  • ghensel

    Well there is not one genuine google Buzz function. It simply is a remix of some of the more succesful tools in the market.

  • http://twitter.com/frogpond Martin Koser

    That could be debated if I had the nerve and time – but let me remind you as well that Google included teams from Jaiku (Jyri et al.) which were doing microblogging before Twitter. Remember Pownce by the way?

    Really, recombining inventions for innovation ain't nothing bad or whatever, if it happens in an imaginative and creative way, that is.

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