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0 pointsSylos9y ago0 comments

I don't know, if there's anything to it, but I once heard that Google Plus was originally not planned to be a social network and rather was supposed to be a way for celebrities and companies and such to provide additional information about themselves, which would then get displayed in the Google Search results.

And like, for that the name would actually make somewhat sense.

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ocdtrekkie9y ago· 1 in thread

My understanding was just that since Google+, as a "social feature" was supposed to be integrated with everything Google. (See the controversial merges into Gmail, YouTube, etc.) So it was kinda Google+Social. So like an upgrade to Google, rather than being a separate, distinct site like it's seen now.

mcv9y ago

Google doesn't really seem to understand their own product. Most people love(d) it as an independent social network because its features are way better than those of Facebook and others, but Google keeps messing it up by nerfing or removing popular features, adding useless ones, integrating it with the low-quality comments on Youtube, not showing everything you want to see, showing things you don't want to see (the hated "+1 sharing"), etc.

It could have been fantastic, but Google seems determined to kill it. Lately I've seen very enthusiastic early fans leave Google+ and just submit to the horror that is Facebook, because at least that's predictable.

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