Google+ Wins A Crunchie But Gets Razzed By The Daily Show

Maybe it’s a sign of success when Jon Stewart decides your social network is big enough to mock. Mock he did to Google+ last night on The Daily Show, ironically on the same night that Google+ won an award at The Crunchies. The Daily Show send-up happened when Stewart was talking about US presidential candidates […]

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Google Plus Daily ShowMaybe it’s a sign of success when Jon Stewart decides your social network is big enough to mock. Mock he did to Google+ last night on The Daily Show, ironically on the same night that Google+ won an award at The Crunchies.

The Daily Show send-up happened when Stewart was talking about US presidential candidates pandering for votes. President Barack Obama’s recent hangout on Google+ was seen as part of that pandering.

Joked Stewart:

Barack Obama was conducting a virtual town hall on Google Plus. Yes, Google Plus. Or as all Gmail users know it, WTF is that thing up there? Is there any way I can turn that off?

Here’s the video:

Stewart then went on to mock some of the questions Obama received, in particular being asked to dance.

On the plus side, hey, at least The Daily Show viewers know about Google+ now. And it’s in good social media company for being mocked.

As a regular Daily Show viewer, I’ve seen Stewart poke at Facebook and Twitter, as well. Here’s when he took on Twitter back in 2009, or at least twittering politicians:

How about that Crunchie? Nominated for Best Social Application, Google+ beat Facebook, Instagram, Path and Twitter.

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Google’s social chief Vic Gundotra posted the picture of the award notice above, appropriately enough, on Google Plus.


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Danny Sullivan
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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land, MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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