Today at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Googlers said nothing about its social network, Google+. There are no conference sessions about Google+, either. The same thing happened at last year’s Google I/O.
The social network has undergone a few changes in the past few months. Google quietly removed the Google+ Shared Collections feature, and Google+ has essentially been divided into separate products, Photos and Streams. But you can still access it, of course.
When I ran into Sundar Pichai, senior vice president for Android, Chrome, and Apps at Google, after the keynote, I couldn’t help but ask him about the fate of Google+.
“We are working on it,” Pichai told VentureBeat. “… You will hear more about it later this year.”
Google+ first launched in June 2011.
In today’s keynote, one of the biggest announcement was Google Photos, a product completely divorced from Google+ that offers free storage for an unlimited number of pictures. You can share the photos out to other, more popular social networks, like Facebook and Twitter.
It’s a big step, but clearly there’s more for Google to do with Google+.
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What ever happened to Google+? ‘We’re working on it,’ Sundar Pichai says
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