Google+ operated a strict real-name policy and banned people who used pseudonyms or screen names, often locking them out of other Google services such as Gmail.

Google+ is shutting down at last. Google announced today it's sunsetting its consumer-facing social network due to lack of user and developer adoption, ...

People prefer Facebook to Google+, fundamentally because Google’s approach to social isn’t fun. Google+ is only the most recent of Google’s embarrassing succession of failures in social media.

Google’s Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph ...

It rapidly gained millions of users, but as usage slowed, Google wedged Google+ into countless services, pushing people to join and use the network — whether they wanted to or not.

Google delivered the news earlier this month in a blog post. The company gave multiple reasons for its decision: It found a security flaw in Google+, consumer engagement is low, and running a ...

But Google is still struggling to define something really basic: what Google+ should be for users. It's a struggle apparent in the service's continued inability to catch fire with regular people ...

Later that evening though, I found social media sites bustling with people seeking Google+ invitations. Apparently they were in short supply and hard to snag, much like those original Gmail ...

"Google+ is a project that aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world: you share different things with different people," says Google's Vic Gundotra.

Google+ in search: Google had no choice Social information is spreading across the Web, and Google search can't ignore its value. But are Facebook and Twitter selling, and will Google pay?

The Circles feature in Google's new social network lets you neatly organize your friends in specific buckets. Too bad people don't really want to do that in a social network.

Google has unveiled its latest attempt at social networking, a mobile-leaning project called Google+. Currently in private trial phase, Google+ emphasises the ability to interact differently with ...