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Targeted by who? The coverage of G+ seems to be almost consistently negative.

Maybe some social-media marketers have taken "any publicity is good publicity" a little too seriously and decided that bashing G+ is easier than praising it. ;)

Ah, maybe they hired the same advertising firm as the IE team then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk

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