Back in October, Google announced it would shut down its Google+ social network for consumers in August 2019 after finding that user data was exposed (Google+ is not going away for G Suite customers).

This month, Google announced its new “Search, Plus Your World” strategy, in which Google search results would integrate information from a user’s social network — or, rather, from the company’s ...

Whether Google says so or not, Google+ is a direct shot at Facebook, a social networking project that attempts, from the ground up, to let users control who sees what. But building a new social ...

Every day or so, I do my social networking rounds. I check in on my Twitter notifications. I read what people are up to on Facebook. I check on LinkedIn messages. I post to all three almost every day.

In 2011, Google came up with a plan to unite many of its services through a single social networking website called Google+. It wasn’t meant to be a Facebook clone, where users would go to connect ...