{"id":51963,"date":"2015-07-27T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/google-vs-google.html"},"modified":"2015-07-27T16:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T22:29:30","slug":"google-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/27\/google-vs-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Google vs Google+"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google is further breaking Google+ into "just another product," announcing that it will separate a person's Google account from the need to have a Google+ profile, and severing the Google+ commenting from YouTube.<\/p>\n

I've been deeply immersed enough into G+ that neither of the above reforms strike me as particularly necessary or all that beneficial. The YouTube piece made a huge difference in the quality of YouTube comments, and having a public profile (even if it was left bare bones) for Google accounts added some useful identity at times.<\/p>\n

The promise in the post is that Google+ will remain as a discussion \/ community forum, and recent feature adds for collections and the like indicate there's still interest in it as a product. But the less it serves as the "glue" for other products, and the more it's just a product on its lonesome, the greater the level of concern I have.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, concern is one thing, posting Gloom and Doom posts or running triumphal repeats of how Google+ Is A Huge Failure posts (of the sort that have been running since the product debuted) is quite another. For that sort of stuff, I'll believe it (and plan around it) when I see it, since regardless of the peripheral bits, it remains a product I use a lot, and the community of folk I communicate with remains robust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I've been deeply immersed enough into G+ that neither of the above reforms strike me as particularly necessary or all that beneficial. … Continue reading “Google vs Google+”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41802,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/26\/omg-google-is-canceled-omg.html","url_meta":{"origin":51963,"position":0},"title":"OMG GOOGLE+ IS CANCELED OMG!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Apr-14 12:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, no, it's not.First off, I would feel a lot more sanguine about a lot of the reporting being done here if there weren't a certain contingent in the tech news\u00a0world who loathe Google+, and squee with delight every time Google appears to stumble. 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