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Google+. 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.
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 Ads. Google Ads is an online advertising platform developed by Google, where advertisers bid to display brief advertisements, service offerings, product listings, and videos to web users. [ 2] It can place ads in the results of search engines like Google Search (the Google Search Network), mobile apps, videos, and on non-search websites ...
Google Play Services is a proprietary software package produced by Google for installation on Android devices. It consists of background services and libraries for use by mobile apps running on the device. [ 7] When it was introduced in 2012, it provided access to the Google+ APIs and OAuth 2.0. It expanded to cover a variety of Google services ...
Google Mobile Services ( GMS) is a collection of proprietary applications and application programming interfaces ( API s) services from Google that are typically pre-installed on the majority of Android devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs. GMS is not a part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which means an Android ...
The barrier for entry on this list is set at 500 million for free apps to limit the size of this list. Many of the applications in this list are distributed pre-installed on top-selling Android devices [ 2 ] and may be considered bloatware by some people because users did not actively choose to download them. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Google Nest – smart home products including smart speakers, smart displays, digital media players, smart doorbells, smart thermostats, smoke detectors, and wireless routers. Google Chromecast – digital media players. Fitbit – activity trackers and smartwatches. Stadia Controller – game controller for Stadia.