Much has been made of late of how quickly Google Plus is growing. Apparently, it took Facebook 852 days to get to ten million followers.

Google Plus has not been far away from the headlines since it first launched to the public at large last year.

If you know much at all about Google, you will know that it likes buying other promising companies.  Now it has bought two more, in the hope that their expertise will allow them to develop …

Topsy – the social search company that also offers an analytics platform – has announced that it will now start including Google Plus posts in its search results. The only posts to be included will be the public ones, so any posts published privately will not appear in search results.

Most businesses realise that social media websites can bring them a stream of customers if they use them correctly.