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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 .
LAN party. A LAN party is a social gathering of participants with personal computers or compatible game consoles, where a local area network (LAN) connection is established between the devices using a router or switch, primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer video games together. LAN party events differ significantly from LAN gaming ...
History and development. 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.
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. Google then began integrating features of Google Voice, its Internet telephony ...
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 data scandal. The bug, despite having been fixed ...
The concept of Discord came from Jason Citron, who had founded OpenFeint, a social gaming platform for mobile games, [ 13] and Stanislav Vishnevskiy, who had founded Guildwork, another social gaming platform. Citron sold OpenFeint to GREE in 2011 for US$104 million, [ 14] which he used to found Hammer & Chisel, a game development studio, in ...
The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users. [2] Google Talk was also the name of the client applications previously offered by Google to use the service. Google Talk applications were available for Microsoft Windows, [3] Android, [4] BlackBerry OS, [5] BlackBerry 10 [5] and ...
Google Search (also known simply as Google or Google.com) is a search engine operated by Google. It allows users to search for information on the Internet by entering keywords or phrases. Google Search uses algorithms to analyze and rank websites based on their relevance to the search query. It is the most popular search engine worldwide.