socialmedian: Blogger gives Google Friend Connect a 9-million site head start on Facebook

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Blogger gives Google Friend Connect a 9-million site head start on Facebook

Source: VentureBeat

Nov 04, 2009

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Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored experiences depending on their interests and friend network. So how has Friend Connect done since its launch last year?

It’s on nine million sites

Friend Connect sites attract about half a billion unique viewers over a 30-day period

And over two people join a site every second

Pretty mind-boggling, if you consider that Facebook’s been talking about its 15,000 Connect partners. While Facebook collects a lot of mindshare for Connect, that’s still 9 million to 15,000.

So what gives? Well, Google automatically turned on Friend Connect for all its Blogger sites, so it definitely helps if you have a whole network of web properties for distribution purposes. Without the Blogger sites, Google Friend Connect integrations come down to about 110,000 sites — that’s still about a 7-to-1 ratio on Facebook Connect.

Google Friend Connect is a bit easier to install; you enter in your site URL to

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