The company announced plans to shut down
Google+. However, there was another data leak shortly after, which prompted Google to fast-track the shutdown of its social network to April.
* No user will be able to create new
Google+ profiles, pages, communities, or events on the platform from February 4.
A vulnerability in Google's software has led to the potential exposure of information belonging to half a million accounts on its social network,
Google+, the company acknowledged Monday -- to which many people joked: Who cares?
Gmail, Google Books, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Docs,
Google+, and even Youtube were just some of the more successful applications released in the short period of time.
Google announced on its website that it is shutting down
Google+ for consumers.
When I search "csco," the NASDAQ abbreviation for Cisco Systems, Inc., a link to Google Finance appears near the top of the page, as does a link to Cisco's
Google+ page.
OVER THE SUMMER, GOOGLE MERGED
GOOGLE+, its social networking service, with Google Maps and Places.
Users can now share files from their Google Drive storage account on their
Google+ social networking profile, a capability that could be particularly relevant for workplace collaboration.
So in May, when Google announced that Google Places pages, arguably the most popular local online marketing tool, were being replaced by new "
Google+ Local" pages (in an integration with the
Google+ social network, but currently separate from
Google+ Business pages), many franchises were left wondering what the impact on their businesses would be and whether they had to reconfigure their online marketing approach.
Google's mission from the get-go was "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Google now has dipped its toes in just about every pool: Email (Gmail) maps (Google Maps, Street View, Google Earth), mobile operating system (Android,) mobile payment system (Google Wallet), and social networking (
Google+), to name a few.
India, March 31 -- Google Drive now offers users access to photos and videos in their
Google+ photos accounts.