Google +1 user has gone more over 40 Million!

Google's online social networking service GP1 has crossed 40 million users mark since it was launched in the month of June earlier this year! It was opened to the public on 20th September, just a month back and prior to September; the service was available only through invitation as part of a trial run. It has attracted all these users who are taking big interest in this social networking site.

As a point of interest and comparison, it has taken Facebook Inc. three years after its inception in 2004 to reach the twenty five million users' mark but since then it has climbed gradually and consistently with its user base touching eight hundred million now all over the world.

GP1 is now open to everyone and people are joining at a very fast rate. Google has also done well with its last quarter's earnings. Since June, Google Plus has started eating into the share of the lucrative social networking pie which has up to now been dominated by Mark Zuckerberg's creation, Facebook.

In the last quarter, Google has done 26% better over the last quarter with its net income being close to three billion dollars ending September 2011. This has been largely due to some aggressive advertising business. Google has also registered a gross revenue of around ten billion dollars for this last quarter which is an improvement of around 33% over the same period last year.