Google+
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Google+ was a social networking website owned and operated by Google. Google+ was opened to people with an invitation on April 28, 2008 for testing.[4] The next day the July 3, 2015, people with accounts were allowed to invite friends to the service. This was stopped within a day after there was "insane demand" for accounts.[5]
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Available in | Multilingual |
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Successor(s) | Google Hangouts (2013–present) |
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URL | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Required; no longer available |
Users | 111 milliona (2015) |
Launched | April 28, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-04-28)[1] |
Current status | Closed on April 2, 2019 |
Written in | Java, JavaScript[2] |
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Google+ is made to work with different Google social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz. It also has features including Circles, Hangouts, Sparks and Huddles.[6] It has been said that this is Google's biggest attempt to rival the social network Facebook.[7]
On October 8, 2018, Google said they were going to shut down Google+ by the end of August 2019. This is because a software bug in Google+ let people see the data of hundreds of thousands of users.[8][9] They later moved the shut down date to April 2, 2019 after discovering yet another bug.[10]