It is quite surprising that Google+ which is still in its infancy and has completed just six months is now being heralded as the new social media player. It is being featured regularly with Facebook and Twitter in industry circles. It supersedes both FB and Twitter in the field of Google ranking, which is obvious [...]

Google’s trick to launch its experimental version of Google+ has worked and it has now acquired nearly 50 million users. It was revealed by Paul Allen, statistician and founder of Ancestry.com, in his Google+ profile. It has achieved this miracle within just 90 days of its existence. His previous analysis about Google+ user base was [...]

Google took a concrete step towards launching its ambitious social media platform Google+ by taking Google+ out of “invite only” mode to live for everyone. Now anybody can sign it up. Google has also started flashing the Google+ ads on its homepage i.e. on www.google.com on the top left corner. The button will take you [...]

Facebook is continuously innovating, making big announcements almost every week. With a Google+ threat looming large, Facebook is in no mood to play a second fiddle to Google + in social media. After adding the subscribe button, new friend list options and enhanced sharing controls; they are now ready to make changes in how newsfeed [...]

A huge debate is on whether Google+ would be able to endanger Facebook and take away its astronomical share of the market. It seems like Facebook has woken up to the threat and they are doing the most obvious and that is matching up the features that are the USPs of the search giant Google+. [...]

Last week Google introduced some improvements it made to its hangout feature in Google+, largely with a view of accessibility and sign language. Video quality was made better to enable it to see signing. Now it is the turn of Google Docs and Google Calendar for more features concerning accessibility. According to Google Accessibility engineers, this [...]

Google+ is extremely wide and continuously expanding through various integrations. Google+ is said to be all about identity. According to former CEO and current Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, Google depends on people using their names and identities to build future products. Responding to the questions on safety, he said that Google+ is completely optional and [...]

Google engineers and product developers are actually working hard to make their +1 button acquire more features similar to Facebook’s “like” button. Previously +1 button was being used to indicate the quality and usability of the searched content. But now you can share the same content with your circles and friends. Google is busy promoting [...]

In order to determine who is has been added to the circles, Google is going to launch verification badges to Google+ users. They have started it initially with those who qualify as celebrities or public figures. It also targets those who have simply been added to a lot of circles. According to Google it has [...]

Google + has been around for just one month but it has already started generating traffic as compared to the social media giants like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It is extremely surprising as the product is still in its testing phase and has not been launched officially.