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Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, stylized as G+ or g+) was a social network that was owned and operated by Google until it ceased operations in 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other Google products like Google Drive, Blogger and YouTube.
Originally called Google+ for G Suite, Currents was, up until its closure in 2023, the sole remnant of Google's defunct social network Google+, which the company shut down entirely for personal and brand use on April 2, 2019. [7] [8] In June 2020, Google Currents was in Public Beta for Google Workspace clients. A free trial could also be requested.
On October 14, 2011, Google announced that Google Buzz would be shut down together with the Buzz API "in a few weeks", in order to focus on Google+ instead. Bradley Horowitz , Google's Vice President, Product, explained the ramifications, "While people obviously won't be able to create new posts after that, they will be able to view their ...
Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google.It was announced in May 2015 and spun off from Google+, the company's former social network.. Google Photos shares the 15 gigabytes of free storage space with other Google services, such as Google Drive and Gmail.
Google Hangouts was a cross-platform instant messaging (IM) service developed by Google.It originally was a feature of Google+, becoming a standalone product in 2013, when Google also began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts.
Vic Gundotra, Google+ lead at the time of the leaks. The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users. [1] Google+ managers first noticed harvesting of personal data in March 2018, [2] during a review following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica ...
Google+ shuts down in April 2019 due to low user engagement and an API flaw. [107] [108] [109] 2019 Acquisition Verizon Media announces it will sell Tumblr to Automattic, owner of WordPress.com and backer of WordPress for less than $3 million. [110] 2020 Launch Clubhouse, an audio-chat social networking app, launches. [111] 2020 Launch
The first was a five-minute outage of every Google service in August 2013. The second was a 25-minute outage of Gmail, Google+, Google Calendar, and Google Docs in January 2014. The third was a YouTube outage in October 2018. The fourth was a Gmail/Google Drive outage in August 2020. The fifth, in November 2020, affected mainly YouTube, and the ...