today<\/em>, after just 3 weeks. By comparison, Facebook took 10 months just to reach 1 million users, almost 2 years to reach 5.5 million, and 3 years for 12 million.<\/p>\nGoogle clearly has a long way to go before catching up to its much larger competitors, and a growth curve this rapid is unlikely to be sustained once the hype dies down. But for a field trial that\u2019s been marked more by a shortage of invites than anything else, these numbers are impressive. After Google+ opens to the public (rumored for the end of this month), it seems that the feared question of \u201cis anyone on this thing\u201d won\u2019t be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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