Google to shut down Google+
Martin Brinkmann,
ghacks.net,
Oct 08, 2018
It surprises no one to hear that Google is finally announcing the end of the Google+ network. It never came close to being a Facebook rival, despite the effort Google put into it. That said, some parts of it - such as Hangouts - were significant successes in their own right. It's interesting to read that " One of the findings of the project team was that Google+ 'has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption' and that it 'has seen limited user interaction with apps'." This could have been done much differently - I've looked into it with respect to gRSShopper and it is not a trivial process to use the API. Ultimately, though, I think the reason Google+ failed was that it was always about Google, not individual people using the network.
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