Google CEO breaks month-and-a-half-long public G+ silence
It had become one of those media-driven tempests – “Hey, look, Google CEO Larry Page has stopped using Google+” — and, truth be told, this one got rolling right here on Buzzblog when I noted Sept. 16 that Page had not posted publicly on his fledgling social network for a full month.
(While I was careful to note that an absence of public posts didn’t mean Page had abandoned Google+ altogether, others were less concerned about such fine points.)
Well, after remaining publicly silent for another 12 days, Page finally tossed the masses a bone on Wednesday when he wrote:
“Just back from our Zeitgeist conference. I am very inspired by the other speakers. Here is a link to my talk with Eric and I doing general questions at the end. Big responsibilities and opportunities ahead!”
He also embedded the video.
Not exactly the Gettysburg Address, but Page was back … and people did notice.
Among the 257 comments left on his post were:
“Finally. Media has been making noise about your silence here. I guess we see your post after the last quarterly results. Looking forward to what interesting statistics you share in the next.”
“Welcome back to Google+ Mr. Page :)”
“Thanks for sharing! Glad to see you here again :)”
” You didn’t dump Google+ after all :)”
“You should appear more often! This was refreshing!”
My point in the initial post was that Page shouldn’t have set up shop on Google+, been Mr. Chatty for a couple of weeks, then gone publicly silent without explanation. That should be even more evident now that his base of followers, then 300,000, is now approaching a half million.
And they’re clamoring to hear from him.
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