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</li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-User_demographics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#User_demographics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>User demographics</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-User_demographics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Features_and_functions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Features_and_functions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Features and functions</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Features_and_functions-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Features and functions subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Features_and_functions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-User_profile" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#User_profile"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>User profile</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-User_profile-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Circles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Circles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Circles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Circles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Identity_services" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Identity_services"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Identity services</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Identity_services-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Public" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Public"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>Public</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Public-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-+1_button" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#+1_button"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>+1 button</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-+1_button-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Google+_Pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Google+_Pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Google+ Pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Google+_Pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Communities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Communities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Communities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Communities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Events" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Events"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.1</span> <span>Events</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Events-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Discover" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Discover"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.2</span> <span>Discover</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Discover-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Google_Local" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Google_Local"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>Google Local</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Google_Local-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Photography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Photography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Photography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Photography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Additional_features" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Additional_features"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>Additional features</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Additional_features-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Collections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Collections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>Collections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Collections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Deprecated_features" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Deprecated_features"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.12</span> <span>Deprecated features</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Deprecated_features-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Technologies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Technologies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Technologies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Technologies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Censorship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Censorship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Censorship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Censorship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Controversies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Controversies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Controversies</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Controversies subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Controversies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Obama's_election_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Obama's_election_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Obama's election campaign</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Obama's_election_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Nymwars" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Nymwars"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Nymwars</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Nymwars-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Commenting_on_YouTube" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Commenting_on_YouTube"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Commenting on YouTube</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Commenting_on_YouTube-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Legal_issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Legal_issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Legal issues</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Legal_issues-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Legal issues subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Legal_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Class-action_lawsuit" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Class-action_lawsuit"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Class-action lawsuit</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Class-action_lawsuit-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the 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title="Google+ – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%B2%2B" title="গুগল+ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="গুগল+" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2%2B" title="गूगल+ – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="गूगल+" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%84_%D9%BE%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="گوگل پلاس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گوگل پلاس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EA%B8%80%2B" title="구글+ – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="구글+" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%B2%2B" title="गूगल+ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="गूगल+" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B" title="Google+ – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Google+" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li 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title="Google">Google</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vic_Gundotra" title="Vic Gundotra">Vic Gundotra</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Horowitz" title="Bradley Horowitz">Bradley Horowitz</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://plus.google.com/">Archived official website</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> (archive index)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">No longer available</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Required; no longer available</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Registered_user" title="Registered user">Users</a></th><td class="infobox-data">200 million (2019)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">June 28, 2011<span class="noprint">; 13 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2011-06-28</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Defunct: Discontinued for personal and <a href="/wiki/Google%2B_for_G_Suite" class="mw-redirect" title="Google+ for G Suite">brand accounts</a> (April 2, 2019<span class="noprint">; 5 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">2019-04-02</span>)</span>)</li><li>All users transitioned to <a href="/wiki/Google_Currents_(social_app)" title="Google Currents (social app)">Google Currents</a> (G-Suite enterprise accounts)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Java_(programming_language)" title="Java (programming language)">Java</a>, <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a><sup id="cite_ref-Google+:_Coding_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google+:_Coding-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><span class="nowrap"><sup>a</sup> Active users<sup id="cite_ref-Google+:_Users_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google+:_Users-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Google+</b> (sometimes written as <b>Google Plus</b>, stylized as <b>G+</b> or <b>g+</b>) was a <a href="/wiki/Social_networking_service" title="Social networking service">social network</a> that was owned and operated by <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> until it ceased operations in 2019. The network was launched on June 28, 2011, in an attempt to challenge other social networks, linking other <a href="/wiki/List_of_Google_products" title="List of Google products">Google products</a> like <a href="/wiki/Google_Drive" title="Google Drive">Google Drive</a>, <a href="/wiki/Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a> and <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>. The service, Google's fourth foray into social networking, experienced strong growth in its initial years, although usage statistics varied, depending on how the service was defined. Three Google executives oversaw the service, which underwent substantial changes that led to a redesign in November 2015. </p><p>Due to low user engagement and disclosed software design flaws that potentially allowed outside developers access to personal information of its users,<sup id="cite_ref-:12_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Google+ developer API was discontinued on March 7, 2019, and Google+ was shut down for business and personal use on April 2, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-USAToday_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USAToday-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Release">Release</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Google+ was the company's fourth foray into social networking, following <a href="/wiki/Google_Buzz" title="Google Buzz">Google Buzz</a> (introduced 2010, retired in 2011), <a href="/wiki/Google_Friend_Connect" title="Google Friend Connect">Google Friend Connect</a> (introduced 2008, retired in March 2012), and <a href="/wiki/Orkut" title="Orkut">Orkut</a> (introduced 2004, retired in September 2014<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). </p><p>Google+ was introduced in June 2011. Features included the ability to post photos and status updates to the stream or interest-based communities, group different types of relationships (rather than simply "friends") into Circles, a multi-person instant messaging, text and video chat called <a href="/wiki/Google_Hangouts" title="Google Hangouts">Hangouts</a>, events, location tagging, and the ability to edit and upload photos to private cloud-based albums.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to a 2016 book by a former <a href="/wiki/Facebook_Platform" title="Facebook Platform">Facebook</a> employee, some leaders at Facebook saw Google's foray into social networking as a serious threat to the company. Facebook founder <a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a> instituted a company-wide "lockdown", signaling that employees were supposed to dedicate time to bringing Facebook's features into line with Google+.<sup id="cite_ref-Lockdown_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lockdown-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Growth">Growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assessments of Google+ growth varied widely, because Google first defined the service as a social network,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then later as "a social layer across all of Google's services", allowing them to share a user's identity and interests.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to <a href="/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a>, Google+ signups were "often just an incidental byproduct of signing up for other Google services."<sup id="cite_ref-Ars_Technica_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ars_Technica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Google_Accounts_basics_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google_Accounts_basics-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, Google+ had 10 million users two weeks after the launch.<sup id="cite_ref-Google+_grows_to_10_million_users_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google+_grows_to_10_million_users-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a month, it had 25 million.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2011, the service had 40 million users, according to <a href="/wiki/Larry_Page" title="Larry Page">Larry Page</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of 2011, Google+ had 90 million users.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2013, approximately 540 million monthly <a href="/wiki/Active_users" title="Active users">active users</a> used the social layer by interacting with Google+'s enhanced properties, such as <a href="/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a>, the +1 button, and <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> comments.<sup id="cite_ref-marketingland.com_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-marketingland.com-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some 300 million monthly active users participated in the social network by interacting with the Google+ social-networking stream. According to <a href="/wiki/ComScore" class="mw-redirect" title="ComScore">ComScore</a>, the biggest market was the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> followed by <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gblog_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gblog-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-usatoday.com_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday.com-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thenextweb.com_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thenextweb.com-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Google+'s user engagement was lower than that of its competitors; <a href="/wiki/ComScore" class="mw-redirect" title="ComScore">ComScore</a> estimated that the average amount of time spent by users on the site during the month of January 2012 amounted to only 3.3<span class="nowrap"> </span>minutes, while on Facebook this metric was over 136 times greater, at 7.5<span class="nowrap"> </span>hours.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2013, average time spent on the site had increased but remained low, at about 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>minutes according to Nielsen (not including traffic from apps).<sup id="cite_ref-:2_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2014, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> likened Google+ to a <a href="/wiki/Ghost_town" title="Ghost town">ghost town</a>, citing Google's stated 540 million "monthly active users" and noting that almost half did not visit the site. The company replied that the significance of Google+ was less as a Facebook competitor than as a means of gathering and connecting user information from Google's various services.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Changes_in_management_and_product_direction">Changes in management and product direction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Changes in management and product direction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2014, <a href="/wiki/Vic_Gundotra" title="Vic Gundotra">Vic Gundotra</a>, the executive in charge of Google+, departed the company<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with management responsibility going to David Besbris. By March 2015, Google executive <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Horowitz" title="Bradley Horowitz">Bradley Horowitz</a>, who had co-founded Google+ with Gundotra, had replaced Besbris, becoming vice president of streams, photos, and sharing.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In an interview with <a href="/wiki/Steven_Levy" title="Steven Levy">Steven Levy</a> published on May 28, 2015, Horowitz said that Google+ was about to undergo a "huge shift" that would better reflect how the service is actually used. By that time, two core Google+ functions, communications and photos, had become standalone services.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:5_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Google_Photos" title="Google Photos">Google Photos</a>, Google's photo and video library, was announced at the May 2015 <a href="/wiki/Google_I/O" title="Google I/O">Google I/O</a> conference.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Verge:_announce_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Verge:_announce-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Google_Hangouts" title="Google Hangouts">Google Hangouts</a>, Google's communications platform, was announced two years earlier, also at Google I/O. Google subsequently refocused Google+ on shared interests, removing features not supporting "an interest-based social experience". The company also eliminated the Google+ social layer; users no longer needed a Google+ profile to share content and communicate with contacts. The transition began with YouTube, where a Google+ profile was no longer required to create, upload, or comment on a channel, but a Google+ page was instead required. YouTube comments no longer appeared on Google+ or vice versa.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Bundling_citations" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources"><span title="This claim has too many footnotes for reading to be smooth. (November 2021)">excessive citations</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Redesign">Redesign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Redesign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On November 18, 2015, Google+ underwent a redesign with the stated intent of making the site simpler and faster, making the new features of Communities and Collections more prominent, and removing features such as Hangouts integration, Events and Custom URLs, though Events and Custom URLs were eventually added back.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:7_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shutdown_of_consumer_version">Shutdown of consumer version</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Shutdown of consumer version"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach" title="2018 Google data breach">2018 Google data breach</a></div> <p>On October 8, 2018, Google announced it would be ending the consumer version of Google+ by the end of August 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-:12_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> later changing that date to April 2, 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company cited low user engagement and difficulties in "creating and maintaining a successful Google+ that meets consumers' expectations", noting that 90% of user sessions on the service lasted less than five seconds. It also acknowledged a design flaw in an <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> that could expose private user data. Google said it found no evidence that "any developer was aware of this bug, or abusing the API" or that "any Profile data was misused."<sup id="cite_ref-project_strobe_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-project_strobe-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a>,</i> the data exposure was discovered in the spring of 2018, and was not reported by the company because of fears of increased regulatory scrutiny. The newspaper said that "the move effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of a product that was launched in 2011 to challenge Facebook, and is widely seen as one of Google's biggest failures."<sup id="cite_ref-wall_street_journal_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wall_street_journal-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 10, 2018, Google reported that a subsequent Google+ API update exposed customer data for six days before being discovered, again saying there was no evidence of any breach. The bug allowed outside developers access to personal information of users. Over 52.5 million users were affected.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company moved the service's shutdown date to April 2019, and said it would "sunset all Google+ APIs in the next 90 days."<sup id="cite_ref-:10_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shutdown_of_business_version">Shutdown of business version</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Shutdown of business version"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On its business-oriented <a href="/wiki/Google_Workspace" title="Google Workspace">G Suite</a>, Google replaced Google+ with a similar product called <a href="/wiki/Google_Currents_(social_app)" title="Google Currents (social app)">Google Currents</a>, which facilitates internal communications.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A few months after the Google+ closure, in July 2019, the company <a href="/wiki/Soft_launch" title="Soft launch">soft launched</a> an experimental social networking platform called <i>Shoelace</i>, oriented toward organizing local activities and events.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Shoelace shut down on May 12, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 5, 2020, Google announced that Currents is replacing Google+ for all G Suite customers on July 6, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 10, 2022, Google announced that it would be planning to "wind down" Currents and transition its users to <a href="/wiki/Google_Chat" title="Google Chat">Google Chat</a> in 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="User_demographics">User demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: User demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Google+'s user base was roughly 60% male and 25% female in November 2013, and 15% "other" or unknown.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early adopters of Google+ in mid-2011 were mostly male (71.24%), and the dominant age bracket (35%) was between 25 and 34.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An August 2011 survey estimated that 13% of U.S. adults had joined Google+.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features_and_functions">Features and functions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Features and functions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_profile">User profile</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: User profile"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A Google+ user profile was a publicly visible account of a user that was attached to many Google properties. It included basic social networking services like a profile photo, an about section, a cover photo, previous work and school history, interests, places lived and an area to post status updates.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also included several identity service sections, such as a contributor and other profiles area that allowed users to link their "properties across the web". These sections were optionally linked to other social media accounts one had, any blogs one owns or have written or sites one is a contributor to. This area was used for Google Authorship.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Customized or Vanity URLs were made available to the public starting on October 29, 2013, to any account that was 30+ days old and had a profile photo and at least 10 followers.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Google removed author photos from search results in June 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in August 2014 Google stopped showing authorship in search results, both photo and author name.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Circles">Circles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Circles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Circles was a core feature of the Google+ Social Platform. It enabled users to organize people into groups or lists for sharing<sup id="cite_ref-techcrunch_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techcrunch-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> across <a href="/wiki/List_of_Google_products" title="List of Google products">various Google products and services</a>. Organization of circles was done through a <a href="/wiki/Drag-and-drop" class="mw-redirect" title="Drag-and-drop">drag-and-drop</a> interface until a site redesign in 2015 reduced it to a simple checkbox interface.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once a circle was created, a Google+ user could share specific private content to only that circle. For example, work-themed content could be shared with only colleagues, and one's friends and family could see more personal content and photos. The option to share Public or with Everyone was always available.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Identity_services">Identity services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Identity services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Starting in November 2011, Google+ profiles were used as the background account for many Google services including YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Android, Google Play, Google Music, Google Voice, Google Wallet, Google Local and more.<sup id="cite_ref-Ars_Technica_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ars_Technica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Google_Accounts_basics_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google_Accounts_basics-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of January 10, Google Search was customized with a feature called Search Plus Your World, which inserted content shared on Google+ profiles and brand pages under Web Search results, if one was logged into one's Google+ account while using it.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The feature, which was opt-in, was received with controversy over the emphasis of Google+ profiles over other social networking services. The feature built upon the earlier "Social Search" feature which indexes content shared or published by authors; "Social Search", however, relied partly upon returns from non-Google services, such as Twitter and Flickr. As of July 2011, tweets were no longer shown due to the expiration of Google's contract with Twitter.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public">Public</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Public"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The public setting allowed users to disclose certain information to the circles of their choice. Users could also see their profile visitors.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="+1_button"><span id=".2B1_button"></span>+1 button</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: +1 button"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Google+ featured a "<i>+1</i> button" which allowed people to recommend sites and posts, similar in use to <a href="/wiki/Facebook_like_button" title="Facebook like button">Facebook's <i>Like</i> button</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similar to "like", "+1" was also called "plus one", and posts (on Google+) and pages (across the internet) could be "+1'd" or "plusoned". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Google+_Pages"><span id="Google.2B_Pages"></span>Google+ Pages</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Google+ Pages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Google+ Pages was released on November 7, 2011 to all users, allowing businesses to connect with fans.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Google+ Badges was quietly introduced to select enterprises beginning on November 9, 2011, and officially released to the public on November 16.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Badges were sidebar widgets which embed "Add to Circles" buttons and drop-down lists into off-site websites and blogs, similar to Facebook's Like Box widgets. This was officially treated by Google as a replacement for the older <a href="/wiki/Google_Friend_Connect" title="Google Friend Connect">Google Friend Connect</a> and its widgets, and GFC was announced by Senior Vice President of Operations <a href="/wiki/Urs_H%C3%B6lzle" title="Urs Hölzle">Urs Hölzle</a> on November 23, 2011, as scheduled to be retired by March 12, 2012, on all non-<a href="/wiki/Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a> sites in favor of Google+ Page Badges.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Google+ Views was introduced on April 1, 2014. It featured a "view counter", which is displayed on every user's profile page. The view counter showed the number of times the user's content had been seen by others, including photos, posts, and profile page.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This feature was later removed in favor of an insights feature.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Communities">Communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Google+ Communities was released on December 6, 2012. This allowed users to create ongoing conversations about particular topics.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Events">Events</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Events allowed users to invite other people to share photos and media in real time. This was removed from Google+ as part of the November 2015 redesign, but later added back in a different location. Events were later included on the user's profile.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Discover">Discover</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Discover"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Discover page showed trending posts and articles on Google+ and around the web.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Google_Local">Google Local</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Google Local"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On June 11, 2014, Google combined Google Places and Google+ Local Business Pages with the Google My Business product. The product used the interface of Google+ but had many more features, including insights and analytics.<sup id="cite_ref-blogspot_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blogspot-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On May 30, 2012, Google Places was replaced by Google+ Local, which integrated directly with the Google+ service to allow users to post photos and reviews of locations directly to its page on the service. Additionally, Google+ Local and Maps featured detailed reviews and ratings from <a href="/wiki/Zagat" title="Zagat">Zagat</a>, which was acquired by Google in September 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-pc-zag_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pc-zag-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Photography">Photography</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Photography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:308px;max-width:308px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MotorolaCanada.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MotorolaCanada.jpg/150px-MotorolaCanada.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MotorolaCanada.jpg/225px-MotorolaCanada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MotorolaCanada.jpg/300px-MotorolaCanada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MotorolaCanada2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/MotorolaCanada2.jpg/150px-MotorolaCanada2.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="113" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/MotorolaCanada2.jpg/225px-MotorolaCanada2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/MotorolaCanada2.jpg/300px-MotorolaCanada2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="2112" /></a></span></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flex"><div class="thumbcaption">Original (left) and with <i>Auto Enhance</i> applied (right)</div></div></div></div> <ul><li>Google+ Creative Kit was an online photo editor integrated to Google+ on October 27, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-Gblog201110_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gblog201110-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> similar to <a href="/wiki/Picnik" title="Picnik">Picnik</a>, integrated earlier to <a href="/wiki/Picasa_Web_Albums" title="Picasa Web Albums">Picasa Web Albums</a>. This feature was removed from Google+ in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Auto Awesome: Released at <a href="/wiki/Google_I/O" title="Google I/O">Google I/O</a> in 2013, the feature applied special effects, manually (with Android) or automatically, often using multiple sequential shots. Effects included composite motion in a single image, short animation, <a href="/wiki/Photo_booth" title="Photo booth">photo booth</a> style, and <a href="/wiki/High-dynamic-range_rendering" title="High-dynamic-range rendering">high-dynamic range rendering</a> (HDR).<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This feature was moved to <a href="/wiki/Google_Photos" title="Google Photos">Google Photos</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_81-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Auto Enhance: With Auto Enhance, Google+ made subtle adjustments to hypothetically improve photos.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This feature was moved to Google Photos in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_81-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Google+ Auto-Backup: A desktop utility that imported a large collection of photos and videos.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This feature was moved to <a href="/wiki/Google_Photos" title="Google Photos">Google Photos</a> in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_81-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_features">Additional features</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Additional features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Google Takeout provided the ability to download one's content from Google+.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hashtag" title="Hashtag">Hashtags</a>, where "<a href="/wiki/Number_sign" title="Number sign">#</a>" is written before a word or <a href="/wiki/CamelCase" class="mw-redirect" title="CamelCase">CamelCase</a>, were hyperlinked to the most recent or highest-trending search results within Google+ containing the term. This, a feature which gained notoriety as a microblogging practice on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, was implemented as a Google+ feature on October 12, 2011. Autocompletion came on January 17, 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Over the lifetime of Google+, Google added and made changes to many features. On September 30, 2011, the company released a list of changes and additions to Google+ mobile which include:<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Selected public figures had <b>verified names</b>. Google determined whether a particular profile warranted verification. The purpose was to indicate to site visitors whether a particular profile belonged to who one would generally expect the name to be, and not someone who coincidentally had the same name as a public figure. Verified identity profiles had a checkmark logo after their name. Examples of profiles that bore the verified name badge include <a href="/wiki/Linus_Torvalds" title="Linus Torvalds">Linus Torvalds</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Shatner" title="William Shatner">William Shatner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leo_Laporte" title="Leo Laporte">Leo Laporte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg" title="Mark Zuckerberg">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Page" title="Larry Page">Larry Page</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Brin" title="Sergey Brin">Sergey Brin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Collections">Collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In May 2015, Google+ launched the "Collections" feature which was inspired by Pinterest. It allowed users to "build content collections based on topics and interests".<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deprecated_features">Deprecated features</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Deprecated features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Search in Google+</i> allowed users to search for content within Google+ and around the web. Users typed what they were looking for into the Google+ search box, and Google returned relevant people and posts, as well as popular content from around the web.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Messenger</i>, also called <i>Huddle</i>, was a feature available to <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a>, and <a href="/wiki/SMS" title="SMS">SMS</a> devices for communicating through instant messaging within Circles. Additionally, users could share photos in Messenger between their Circles.<sup id="cite_ref-techcrunch_62-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techcrunch-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This feature was removed in August 2013 as it was superseded by Hangouts.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Sparks</i> was a front-end to <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google Search</a>, enabling users to identify topics they might be interested in sharing with others. "Featured interests" sparks were also available, based on topics others globally were finding interesting.<sup id="cite_ref-techcrunch_62-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techcrunch-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sparks was accessed as a pull-down from search results and helped to keep users informed of the latest updates on the topics of their interest. Sparks was removed sometime in November 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Games</i> had 16 games when Google+ launched on August 11, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which expanded to 44 a few months later, but by April 2013 there were 38 since some games were removed by the owner.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike Facebook games, Google+ games were located under a games tab, which gave games less visibility,<sup id="cite_ref-GamesRight_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GamesRight-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and had separate notifications from the rest of a user's notifications.<sup id="cite_ref-GamesRight_95-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GamesRight-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All games were removed from Google+ in June 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept was later recycled as YouTube Playables, a similar webgame platform.</li> <li><i>Ripples</i>, introduced on October 27, 2011, was a visualization tool, showing how re-sharing activity happened regarding a public post. One could replay the public share's activity, zoom in on certain events, identify top contributors, view statistics about average chain length, the most influential people in the chain, the language of the sharers, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-Gblog201110_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gblog201110-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The feature was removed in May 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Hangouts</i>, the feature that enabled users to chat, voice, and video conference between users, was removed from Google+ as part of the November 2015 redesign and made accessible through its own Hangouts homepage and mobile applications.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Hangouts on Air</i>, introduced in September 2011, the live streaming service was moved to YouTube Live starting September 12, 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>What's Hot</i>, introduced on October 27, 2011, was a stream showing what Google+ users had commented, shared and interacted with the most. It was similar to "Trending Topics" On Twitter.<sup id="cite_ref-Gblog201110_80-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gblog201110-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The page was removed in late 2015, but a new "discover" stream introduced in 2017 provided similar functionality.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_77-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Photos</i> was a suite of features which provided photo backup and editing, removed in 2015 and replaced with a separate product called Google Photos.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_81-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Mentions</i> was a separate stream that showed posts and images the user was +mentioned in. This page was removed in the November 2015 redesign.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Technologies">Technologies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Technologies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to Joseph Smarr, one of the Google+ team's technical leads, Google+ was a typical Google web application: it used <a href="/wiki/Java_servlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Java servlet">Java servlets</a> for the server code and <a href="/wiki/JavaScript" title="JavaScript">JavaScript</a> for the browser-side of the UI, largely built with Google's <a href="/wiki/Google_Closure_Tools" title="Google Closure Tools">Closure framework</a>, including the JavaScript compiler and the template system. They used the <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a> History API to maintain good-looking URLs in modern browsers despite the <a href="/wiki/AJAX" class="mw-redirect" title="AJAX">AJAX</a> app. To achieve fast response times Google often rendered the Closure templates on the server side before any JavaScript was loaded; then the JavaScript found the right <a href="/wiki/Document_Object_Model" title="Document Object Model">DOM</a> nodes, hooked up <a href="/wiki/Event_handler" class="mw-redirect" title="Event handler">event handlers</a>, etc. The back ends were built mostly on top of <a href="/wiki/Bigtable" title="Bigtable">Bigtable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_File_System" title="Google File System">Colossus/GFS</a>, and other common Google technologies such as <a href="/wiki/MapReduce" title="MapReduce">MapReduce</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Google+:_Coding_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google+:_Coding-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Censorship">Censorship</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Censorship"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Within a day of the website's launch, various news agencies reported that Google+ was restricted by the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was part of a wider policy of <a href="/wiki/Censorship_in_China" title="Censorship in China">censorship in mainland China</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While it was not technically "blocked", it was made impossible to use by slowing it down to a crawl.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> government had also blocked access to Google+ from July 11, 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as part of <a href="/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Iran" title="Internet censorship in Iran">Internet censorship in Iran</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Obama's_election_campaign"><span id="Obama.27s_election_campaign"></span>Obama's election campaign</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Obama's election campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On February 20, 2012, Internet users from China realized that state restrictions on Google+ had been relaxed for unknown reasons, allowing them to post on Google+ pages.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In particular, Chinese users began to inundate the <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama_2012_presidential_campaign" title="Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign">official election campaign pages</a> of U.S. president <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> on Google+ with often off-topic comments.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nymwars">Nymwars</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Nymwars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nymwars" title="Nymwars">Nymwars</a></div> <p>In July 2011, Google+ required users to identify themselves using their real names, and some accounts were suspended when this requirement was not met.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Google VP Bradley Horowitz stated that a violation of the terms of service would only affect offenders' access to Google+ and not any of the other services that Google provided.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, there were early reports of account holders being temporarily locked out of all of Google services.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 19, 2011, at the Web 2.0 Summit, Google executive <a href="/wiki/Vic_Gundotra" title="Vic Gundotra">Vic Gundotra</a> revealed that Google+ would begin supporting pseudonyms and other types of identity "within a few months".<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Starting on January 23, 2012, Google+ began allowing the use of established pseudonyms.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2014, Google+'s policy was changed to allow any name to be used.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Commenting_on_YouTube">Commenting on YouTube</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Commenting on YouTube"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png/220px-Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png/330px-Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png/440px-Bob-google-plus-ascii-art-protest-comment.png 2x" data-file-width="735" data-file-height="135" /></a><figcaption>An image of the ASCII-art comment featuring "Bob" used in the then-new Google+/YouTube comment section to protest the forced adoption of Google+ for commenting</figcaption></figure> <p>On November 6, 2013, YouTube, Google's popular video-hosting site, began requiring that <a href="/wiki/Comments_section" title="Comments section">commenting</a> on its videos be done via a Google+ account, making it impossible to reply to pre-Google+ integrated comments. YouTube said that its new commenting system featured improved tools for moderation, and comments would no longer be shown chronologically with two top comments at the top when applicable, but would be featured according to "relevance" and popularity, determined by the commenters' community engagement, reputation, and up-votes for a particular comment.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The decision led hundreds of thousands of users to criticize the change.<sup id="cite_ref-Google+_rollback_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Google+_rollback-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some YouTube commenters and content creators complained that the Google+ requirement that users use their real name created online privacy and security concerns.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> YouTube co-founder <a href="/wiki/Jawed_Karim" title="Jawed Karim">Jawed Karim</a> voiced his disapproval in one of a few comments subsequent to the change<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including the temporary addition of the following comments, "Why the f*** do I need a Google+ account to comment on a video?" and "I can't comment here anymore, since I don't want a google+ account" to the description of <a href="/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo" title="Me at the zoo">the first ever public video on the site</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thousands of commenters on YouTube pasted text art tanks and stick figures called "Bob" to protest the new commenting system and Google+.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Supporters of the changes said it was a positive step at cleaning up the "virtual cesspool" of homophobic, racist, sexist and offensive comments found on YouTube.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this actually increased the spam, and in fixing the issue, Google took the opportunity to strike back against those posting "Bob" <a href="/wiki/ASCII_art" title="ASCII art">ASCII art</a> in protest at the company's actions.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 27, 2015, it was announced that the integration with Google+ would be discontinued and that YouTube would require only a Google+ page to use all the features, such as uploading videos and posting comments. YouTube had these changes rolled out over the course of several months, with the comments feature already having an update directly after the announcement: comments only appeared on <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a> and were no longer shared to the social network platform.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legal_issues">Legal issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Legal issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Class-action_lawsuit">Class-action lawsuit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Class-action lawsuit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2018, a class-action lawsuit was filed against <a href="/wiki/Google,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Google, Inc.">Google, Inc.</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alphabet,_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Alphabet, Inc.">Alphabet, Inc.</a> due to "non-public" Google+ account data being exposed as a result of a privacy bug that allowed app developers to gain access to private information of users. The litigation was settled in July 2020 for $7.5 million and 1,720,029 claimants received $2.15 each.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Google%2B&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>The 2013 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Internship" title="The Internship">The Internship</a></i> makes many references to Google+. Set at Google, the comedy was directed by <a href="/wiki/Shawn_Levy" title="Shawn Levy">Shawn Levy</a> and stars <a href="/wiki/Owen_Wilson" title="Owen Wilson">Owen Wilson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vince_Vaughn" title="Vince Vaughn">Vince Vaughn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Musician <a href="/wiki/Emma_Blackery" title="Emma Blackery">Emma Blackery</a> made a November 2013 song criticizing the platform's integration with YouTube.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2018, following the announcement of the service's imminent shutdown for consumers, an updated version was released.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> 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href="/wiki/Project_Zero" title="Project Zero">Zero</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Google" title="Criticism of Google">Criticism</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Google_data_breach" title="2018 Google data breach">2018 data breach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Google_walkouts" title="2018 Google walkouts">2018 walkouts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alphabet_Workers_Union" title="Alphabet Workers Union">Alphabet Workers Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_Google" title="Censorship by Google">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeGoogle" title="DeGoogle">DeGoogle</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)" title="Dragonfly (search engine)">Dragonfly</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FairSearch" title="FairSearch">FairSearch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber" title="Google's Ideological Echo Chamber">"Ideological Echo Chamber" memo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_litigation" title="Google litigation">Litigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Privacy_concerns_with_Google" title="Privacy concerns with Google">Privacy concerns</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Street_View_privacy_concerns" title="Google Street View privacy concerns">Street View</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_tech_bus_protests" title="San Francisco tech bus protests">San Francisco tech bus protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_services_outages" title="Google services outages">Services outages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars" title="Smartphone patent wars">Smartphone patent wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_worker_organization" title="Google worker organization">Worker organization</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#YouTube" title="Criticism of Google">YouTube</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Korean_YouTube_backdoor_advertising_controversy" title="2020 Korean YouTube backdoor advertising controversy">Back advertisement controversy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#YouTube" title="Censorship by Google">Censorship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_copyright_issues" title="YouTube copyright issues">Copyright issues</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_copyright_strike" title="YouTube copyright strike">Copyright strike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elsagate" title="Elsagate">Elsagate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fantastic_Adventures_scandal" title="Fantastic Adventures scandal">Fantastic Adventures scandal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_headquarters_shooting" title="YouTube headquarters shooting">Headquarters shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Kohistan_video_case" title="2012 Kohistan video case">Kohistan video case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reactions_to_Innocence_of_Muslims" title="Reactions to Innocence of Muslims">Reactions to <i>Innocence of Muslims</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Slovenian_YouTube_incident" title="2011 Slovenian YouTube incident">Slovenian government incident</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Development" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Google_Developers" title="Google Developers">Development</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Operating systems</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Android_Automotive" title="Android Automotive">Automotive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Glass_OS" title="Glass OS">Glass OS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_Go" title="Android Go">Go</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GLinux" title="GLinux">gLinux</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goobuntu" title="Goobuntu">Goobuntu</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Android_Things" title="Android Things">Things</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_TV" title="Android TV">TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wear_OS" title="Wear OS">Wear OS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ChromeOS" title="ChromeOS">ChromeOS</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ChromiumOS" title="ChromiumOS">ChromiumOS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neverware" title="Neverware">Neverware</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)" title="Fuchsia (operating system)">Fuchsia</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_TV_(operating_system)" title="Google TV (operating system)">TV</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Libraries/<br />frameworks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ALTS" title="ALTS">ALTS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages" title="Accelerated Mobile Pages">AMP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angular_(web_framework)" title="Angular (web framework)">Angular</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/AngularJS" title="AngularJS">JS</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ARCore" title="ARCore">ARCore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_APIs" title="Google APIs">APIs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blockly" title="Blockly">Blockly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chart_API" title="Google Chart API">Chart API</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Charts" title="Google Charts">Charts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dialogflow" title="Dialogflow">Dialogflow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exposure_Notification" title="Exposure Notification">Exposure Notification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fast_Pair" title="Fast Pair">Fast Pair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federated_Learning_of_Cohorts" title="Federated Learning of Cohorts">Federated Learning of Cohorts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_File_System" title="Google File System">File System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FlatBuffers" title="FlatBuffers">FlatBuffers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flutter_(software)" title="Flutter (software)">Flutter</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gears_(software)" title="Gears (software)">Gears</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GRPC" title="GRPC">gRPC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gson" title="Gson">Gson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Guava" title="Google Guava">Guava</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Guice" title="Google Guice">Guice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guetzli" title="Guetzli">Guetzli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_JAX" title="Google JAX">JAX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GVisor" title="GVisor">gVisor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MapReduce" title="MapReduce">MapReduce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matter_(standard)" title="Matter (standard)">Matter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Mobile_Services" title="Google Mobile Services">Mobile Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_Translation" title="Google Neural Machine Translation">Neural Machine Translation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenSocial" title="OpenSocial">OpenSocial</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Pack" title="Google Pack">Pack</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polymer_(library)" title="Polymer (library)">Polymer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Protocol_Buffers" title="Protocol Buffers">Protocol Buffers</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Reqwireless" title="Reqwireless">Reqwireless</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Shell" title="Google Shell">Shell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skia_Graphics_Engine" title="Skia Graphics Engine">Skia Graphics Engine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tango_(platform)" title="Tango (platform)">Tango</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TensorFlow" title="TensorFlow">TensorFlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Test" title="Google Test">Test</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WaveNet" title="WaveNet">WaveNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weave_(protocol)" title="Weave (protocol)">Weave</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Web_Accelerator" title="Google Web Accelerator">Web Accelerator</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WebRTC" title="WebRTC">WebRTC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Platforms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_App_Engine" title="Google App Engine">App Engine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/AppJet" title="AppJet">AppJet</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Apps_Script" title="Google Apps Script">Apps Script</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform" title="Google Cloud Platform">Cloud Platform</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Anvato" title="Anvato">Anvato</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firebase" title="Firebase">Firebase</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Firebase_Cloud_Messaging" title="Firebase Cloud Messaging">Cloud Messaging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crashlytics" title="Crashlytics">Crashlytics</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Global_IP_Solutions" title="Global IP Solutions">Global IP Solutions</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Low_Bitrate_Codec" title="Internet Low Bitrate Codec">Internet Low Bitrate Codec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Speech_Audio_Codec" title="Internet Speech Audio Codec">Internet Speech Audio Codec</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gridcentric,_Inc." title="Gridcentric, Inc.">Gridcentric, Inc.</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ITA_Software" title="ITA Software">ITA Software</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kubernetes" title="Kubernetes">Kubernetes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LevelDB" title="LevelDB">LevelDB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neatx" title="Neatx">Neatx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_IDX" title="Project IDX">Project IDX</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SageTV" title="SageTV">SageTV</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><i><a href="/wiki/Apigee" title="Apigee">Apigee</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bigtable" title="Bigtable">Bigtable</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bitium" title="Bitium">Bitium</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chronicle_Security" title="Chronicle Security">Chronicle</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/VirusTotal" title="VirusTotal">VirusTotal</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Compute_Engine" title="Google Compute Engine">Compute Engine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Connect" title="Google Cloud Connect">Connect</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Dataflow" title="Google Cloud Dataflow">Dataflow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Datastore" title="Google Cloud Datastore">Datastore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kaggle" title="Kaggle">Kaggle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Looker_(company)" title="Looker (company)">Looker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandiant" title="Mandiant">Mandiant</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Messaging" title="Google Cloud Messaging">Messaging</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orbitera" title="Orbitera">Orbitera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Shell" title="Google Cloud Shell">Shell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Stackdriver" title="Stackdriver">Stackdriver</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Storage" title="Google Cloud Storage">Storage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Tools</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Fuzzy_Lop_(software)" title="American Fuzzy Lop (software)">American Fuzzy Lop</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Android_Cloud_to_Device_Messaging" title="Android Cloud to Device Messaging">Android Cloud to Device Messaging</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_Debug_Bridge" title="Android Debug Bridge">Android Debug Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_Studio" title="Android Studio">Android Studio</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_App_Maker" title="Google App Maker">App Maker</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_App_Runtime_for_Chrome" title="Google App Runtime for Chrome">App Runtime for Chrome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AppSheet" title="AppSheet">AppSheet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bazel_(software)" title="Bazel (software)">Bazel</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome_Frame" title="Google Chrome Frame">Chrome Frame</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Closure_Tools" title="Google Closure Tools">Closure Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cpplint" title="Cpplint">Cpplint</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Data_Protocol" title="Google Data Protocol">Data Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Gadgets" title="Google Gadgets">Gadgets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerrit_(software)" title="Gerrit (software)">Gerrit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GYP_(software)" title="GYP (software)">GYP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Kythe" title="Google Kythe">Kythe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Lighthouse" title="Google Lighthouse">Lighthouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MIT_App_Inventor" title="MIT App Inventor">MIT App Inventor</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Mashup_Editor" title="Google Mashup Editor">Mashup Editor</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Native_Client" title="Google Native Client">Native Client</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Optimize" title="Google Optimize">Optimize</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OpenRefine" title="OpenRefine">OpenRefine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OR-Tools" title="OR-Tools">OR-Tools</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_PageSpeed_Tools" title="Google PageSpeed Tools">PageSpeed</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Plugin_for_Eclipse" title="Google Plugin for Eclipse">Plugin for Eclipse</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Programmable_Search_Engine" title="Google Programmable Search Engine">Programmable Search Engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Public_DNS" title="Google Public DNS">Public DNS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ReCAPTCHA" title="ReCAPTCHA">reCAPTCHA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schema.org" title="Schema.org">Schema.org</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Search_Console" title="Google Search Console">Search Console</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitemaps" title="Sitemaps">Sitemaps</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Swiffy" title="Google Swiffy">Swiffy</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tesseract_(software)" title="Tesseract (software)">Tesseract (software)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trendalyzer" title="Trendalyzer">Trendalyzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VisBug" title="VisBug">VisBug</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Wave_Federation_Protocol" title="Google Wave Federation Protocol">Wave Federation Protocol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit" title="Google Web Toolkit">Web Toolkit</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Search algorithms</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Hummingbird" title="Google Hummingbird">Hummingbird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PageRank" title="PageRank">PageRank</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_matrix" title="Google matrix">Matrix</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Panda" title="Google Panda">Panda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Penguin" title="Google Penguin">Penguin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Pigeon" title="Google Pigeon">Pigeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/RankBrain" title="RankBrain">RankBrain</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/BERT_(language_model)" title="BERT (language model)">BERT</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BigQuery" title="BigQuery">BigQuery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chrome_Experiments" title="Google Chrome Experiments">Chrome Experiments</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Flutter_(American_company)" title="Flutter (American company)">Flutter</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemini_(language_model)" title="Gemini (language model)">Gemini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Googlebot" title="Googlebot">Googlebot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keyhole_Markup_Language" title="Keyhole Markup Language">Keyhole Markup Language</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LaMDA" title="LaMDA">LaMDA</a></li> 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title="Google Web Server">Web Server</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">File formats</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Android_App_Bundle" title="Android App Bundle">AAB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apk_(file_format)" title="Apk (file format)">APK</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AV1" title="AV1">AV1</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On2_Technologies" title="On2 Technologies">On2 Technologies</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/VP3" title="VP3">VP3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VP6" title="VP6">VP6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VP8" title="VP8">VP8</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Libvpx" title="Libvpx">libvpx</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VP9" title="VP9">VP9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WebM" title="WebM">WebM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WebP" title="WebP">WebP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Web_Open_Font_Format" title="Web Open Font Format">WOFF2</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Products" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Google_products" title="List of Google products">Products</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Entertainment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Currents_(news_app)" title="Google Currents (news app)">Currents (news app)</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Throttle_Games" title="Green Throttle Games">Green Throttle Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owlchemy_Labs" title="Owlchemy Labs">Owlchemy Labs</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oyster_(company)" title="Oyster (company)">Oyster</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PaperofRecord.com" title="PaperofRecord.com">PaperofRecord.com</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Podcasts" title="Google Podcasts">Podcasts</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quick,_Draw!" title="Quick, Draw!">Quick, Draw!</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Santa_Tracker" title="Google Santa Tracker">Santa Tracker</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Songza" title="Songza">Songza</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Stadia" title="Google Stadia">Stadia</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Stadia_games" title="List of Stadia games">games</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Typhoon_Studios" title="Typhoon Studios">Typhoon Studios</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_TV_(service)" title="Google TV (service)">TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vevo" title="Vevo">Vevo</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Video" title="Google Video">Video</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Google_Play" title="Google Play">Play</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Play_Books" title="Google Play Books">Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Play_Games" title="Google Play Games">Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_most-downloaded_Google_Play_applications" title="List of most-downloaded Google 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title="YouTube Kids">Kids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Music" title="YouTube Music">Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_(YouTube_channel)" title="YouTube (YouTube channel)">Official channel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Premium" title="YouTube Premium">Premium</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_YouTube_Premium_original_programming" title="List of YouTube Premium original programming">original programming</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Rewind" title="YouTube Rewind">YouTube Rewind</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/RightsFlow" title="RightsFlow">RightsFlow</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Select" title="YouTube Select">Select</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Shorts" title="YouTube Shorts">Shorts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_Studio" title="YouTube Studio">Studio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_TV" title="YouTube TV">TV</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Communication</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Allo" title="Google Allo">Allo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bump_(application)" title="Bump (application)">Bump</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Buzz" title="Google Buzz">Buzz</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Chat" title="Google Chat">Chat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Contacts" title="Google Contacts">Contacts</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Currents_(social_app)" title="Google Currents (social app)">Currents (social app)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dodgeball_(service)" title="Dodgeball (service)">Dodgeball</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Duo" title="Google Duo">Duo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Fi_Wireless" title="Google Fi Wireless">Fi Wireless</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Friend_Connect" title="Google Friend Connect">Friend Connect</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gizmo5" title="Gizmo5">Gizmo5</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Google+</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gmail" title="Gmail">Gmail</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Gmail" title="History of Gmail">History</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail" title="Inbox by Gmail">Inbox</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gmail_interface" title="Gmail interface">Interface</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Groups" title="Google Groups">Groups</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Hangouts" title="Google Hangouts">Hangouts</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Helpouts" title="Google Helpouts">Helpouts</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_IME" title="Google IME">IME</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Japanese_Input" title="Google Japanese Input">Japanese</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Pinyin" title="Google Pinyin">Pinyin</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jaiku" title="Jaiku">Jaiku</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Marratech" title="Marratech">Marratech</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Meebo" title="Meebo">Meebo</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Meet" title="Google Meet">Meet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Messages" title="Google Messages">Messages</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Moderator" title="Google Moderator">Moderator</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Neotonic_Software" title="Neotonic Software">Neotonic Software</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orkut" title="Orkut">Orkut</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Postini" title="Postini">Postini</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quest_Visual" title="Quest Visual">Quest Visual</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Word_Lens" title="Word Lens">Word Lens</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Schemer" title="Google Schemer">Schemer</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Spaces" title="Google Spaces">Spaces</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sparrow_(email_client)" title="Sparrow (email client)">Sparrow</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Talk" title="Google Talk">Talk</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Translate" title="Google Translate">Translate</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Translator_Toolkit" title="Google Translator Toolkit">Translator Toolkit</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Voice" title="Google Voice">Voice</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/GOOG-411" title="GOOG-411">Voice Local Search</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Wave" title="Google Wave">Wave</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Search</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine)" title="Aardvark (search engine)">Aardvark</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Alerts" title="Google Alerts">Alerts</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Answers" title="Google Answers">Answers</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Base" title="Google Base">Base</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BeatThatQuote.com" title="BeatThatQuote.com">BeatThatQuote.com</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Blog_Search" title="Google Blog Search">Blog Search</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Books" title="Google Books">Books</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Books_Ngram_Viewer" title="Google Books Ngram Viewer">Ngram Viewer</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Code_Search" title="Google Code Search">Code Search</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Data_Commons" title="Data Commons">Data Commons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Dataset_Search" title="Google Dataset Search">Dataset Search</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Dictionary" title="Google Dictionary">Dictionary</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Directory" title="Google Directory">Directory</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Fast_Flip" title="Google Fast Flip">Fast Flip</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends" title="Google Flu Trends">Flu Trends</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Finance" title="Google Finance">Finance</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Goggles" title="Google Goggles">Goggles</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google.by" title="Google.by">Google.by</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Images" title="Google Images">Images</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Image_Labeler" title="Google Image Labeler">Image Labeler</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Image_Swirl" title="Google Image Swirl">Image Swirl</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kaltix" title="Kaltix">Kaltix</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Knowledge_Graph" title="Google Knowledge Graph">Knowledge Graph</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Freebase_(database)" title="Freebase (database)">Freebase</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Metaweb" title="Metaweb">Metaweb</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Like.com" title="Like.com">Like.com</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_News" title="Google News">News</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_News_Archive" title="Google News Archive">Archive</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_News_%26_Weather" title="Google News & Weather">Weather</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Patents" title="Google Patents">Patents</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/People_Cards" title="People Cards">People Cards</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Personalized_Search" title="Google Personalized Search">Personalized Search</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Public_Data_Explorer" title="Google Public Data Explorer">Public Data Explorer</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Questions_and_Answers" class="mw-redirect" title="Google Questions and Answers">Questions and Answers</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SafeSearch" title="SafeSearch">SafeSearch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Scholar" title="Google Scholar">Scholar</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_SearchWiki" title="Google SearchWiki">Searchwiki</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Shopping" title="Google Shopping">Shopping</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Catalogs" title="Google Catalogs">Catalogs</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Express" title="Google Express">Express</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Squared" title="Google Squared">Squared</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tenor_(website)" title="Tenor (website)">Tenor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Travel" title="Google Travel">Travel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Flights" title="Google Flights">Flights</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Trends" title="Google Trends">Trends</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Insights_for_Search" title="Google Insights for Search">Insights for Search</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Voice_Search" title="Google Voice Search">Voice Search</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/WDYL_(search_engine)" title="WDYL (search engine)">WDYL</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Navigation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Earth" title="Google Earth">Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endoxon" title="Endoxon">Endoxon</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/ImageAmerica" title="ImageAmerica">ImageAmerica</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Maps" title="Google Maps">Maps</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Latitude" title="Google Latitude">Latitude</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Map_Maker" title="Google Map Maker">Map Maker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Maps_Navigation" title="Google Maps Navigation">Navigation</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Maps_pin" title="Google Maps pin">Pin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Street_View" title="Google Street View">Street View</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Street_View_coverage" title="Google Street View coverage">Coverage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Street_View_Trusted" title="Street View Trusted">Trusted</a></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Waze" title="Waze">Waze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Where_Is_My_Train" title="Where Is My Train">Where Is My Train</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Business<br />and finance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Ad_Manager" title="Google Ad Manager">Ad Manager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AdMob" title="AdMob">AdMob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Ads" title="Google Ads">Ads</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adscape" title="Adscape">Adscape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_AdSense" title="Google AdSense">AdSense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Attribution" title="Google Attribution">Attribution</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BebaPay" title="BebaPay">BebaPay</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Checkout" title="Google Checkout">Checkout</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Contributor" title="Google Contributor">Contributor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DoubleClick" title="DoubleClick">DoubleClick</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Affiliate_Network" title="Google Affiliate Network">Affiliate Network</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invite_Media" title="Invite Media">Invite Media</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Analytics" title="Google Analytics">Marketing Platform</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Analytics" title="Google Analytics">Analytics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Looker_Studio" title="Looker Studio">Looker Studio</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Urchin_(software)" title="Urchin (software)">Urchin</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Pay_(mobile_app)" title="Google Pay (mobile app)">Pay (mobile app)</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Wallet" title="Google Wallet">Wallet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Pay_(payment_method)" title="Google Pay (payment method)">Pay (payment method)</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Pay_Send" title="Google Pay Send">Send</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tez_(software)" title="Tez (software)">Tez</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/PostRank" title="PostRank">PostRank</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Primer" title="Google Primer">Primer</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Softcard" title="Softcard">Softcard</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Wildfire_Interactive" title="Wildfire Interactive">Wildfire Interactive</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Widevine" title="Widevine">Widevine</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Organization<br />and productivity</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Bookmarks" title="Google Bookmarks">Bookmarks</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Browser_Sync" title="Google Browser Sync">Browser Sync</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Calendar" title="Google Calendar">Calendar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Search" title="Google Cloud Search">Cloud Search</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Desktop" title="Google Desktop">Desktop</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Drive" title="Google Drive">Drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Etherpad" title="Etherpad">Etherpad</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fflick" title="Fflick">fflick</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Files_(Google)" title="Files (Google)">Files</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/IGoogle" title="IGoogle">iGoogle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jamboard" title="Jamboard">Jamboard</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Notebook" title="Google Notebook">Notebook</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NotebookLM" title="NotebookLM">NotebookLM</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_One" title="Google One">One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Photos" title="Google Photos">Photos</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Quickoffice" title="Quickoffice">Quickoffice</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Quick_Search_Box" title="Google Quick Search Box">Quick Search Box</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Surveys" title="Google Surveys">Surveys</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Sync" title="Google Sync">Sync</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Tasks" title="Google Tasks">Tasks</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Toolbar" title="Google Toolbar">Toolbar</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Google_Docs_Editors" title="Google Docs Editors">Docs Editors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Docs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Drawings" title="Google Drawings">Drawings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Forms" title="Google Forms">Forms</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Fusion_Tables" title="Google Fusion Tables">Fusion Tables</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Keep" title="Google Keep">Keep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Sheets" title="Google Sheets">Sheets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Slides" title="Google Slides">Slides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Sites" title="Google Sites">Sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Vids" title="Google Vids">Vids</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Publishing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apture" title="Apture">Apture</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blogger_(service)" title="Blogger (service)">Blogger</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pyra_Labs" title="Pyra Labs">Pyra Labs</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Domains" title="Google Domains">Domains</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FeedBurner" title="FeedBurner">FeedBurner</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_One_Pass" title="Google One Pass">One Pass</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Page_Creator" title="Google Page Creator">Page Creator</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Sites" title="Google Sites">Sites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Web_Designer" title="Google Web Designer">Web Designer</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Education</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Classroom" title="Google Classroom">Classroom</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grasshopper_(mobile_app)" title="Grasshopper (mobile app)">Grasshopper</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Socratic_(Google)" title="Socratic (Google)">Socratic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Photomath" title="Photomath">Photomath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Read_Along" title="Read Along">Read Along</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toontastic_3D" title="Toontastic 3D">Toontastic 3D</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Workspace" title="Google Workspace">Workspace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Workspace_Marketplace" title="Google Workspace Marketplace">Marketplace</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" 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Maker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BumpTop" title="BumpTop">BumpTop</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Cast" title="Google Cast">Cast</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Cloud_Print" title="Google Cloud Print">Cloud Print</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crowdsource_(app)" title="Crowdsource (app)">Crowdsource</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Digital_Wellbeing" title="Digital Wellbeing">Digital Wellbeing</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Expeditions" title="Google Expeditions">Expeditions</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Family_Link" title="Google Family Link">Family Link</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Find_My_Device" title="Find My Device">Find My Device</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Fit" title="Google Fit">Fit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Fonts" title="Google Fonts">Google Fonts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gboard" title="Gboard">Gboard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gemini_(chatbot)" title="Gemini (chatbot)">Gemini</a></li> <li><i><a 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title="Google Question Hub">Question Hub</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quick_Share" title="Quick Share">Quick Share</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Reader" title="Google Reader">Reader</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing" title="Google Safe Browsing">Safe Browsing</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Sidewiki" title="Google Sidewiki">Sidewiki</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/SlickLogin" title="SlickLogin">SlickLogin</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sound_Amplifier" title="Sound Amplifier">Sound Amplifier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Speech_Recognition_%26_Synthesis" title="Speech Recognition & Synthesis">Speech Recognition & Synthesis</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Station" title="Google Station">Station</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Store" title="Google Store">Store</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TalkBack" title="TalkBack">TalkBack</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tilt_Brush" title="Tilt Brush">Tilt Brush</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Android_Dev_Phone" title="Android Dev Phone">Android Dev Phone</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Android_One" title="Android One">Android One</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Nexus" title="Google Nexus">Nexus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_One" title="Nexus One">Nexus One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_S" title="Nexus S">S</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Nexus" title="Galaxy Nexus">Galaxy Nexus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_4" title="Nexus 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_5" title="Nexus 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_6" title="Nexus 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_5X" title="Nexus 5X">5X</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_6P" title="Nexus 6P">6P</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Google_Nexus_smartphones" title="Comparison of Google Nexus smartphones">Comparison</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Pixel" title="Google Pixel">Pixel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_(1st_generation)" title="Pixel (1st generation)">Pixel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_2" title="Pixel 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_3" title="Pixel 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_3a" title="Pixel 3a">3a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_4" title="Pixel 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_4a" title="Pixel 4a">4a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_5" title="Pixel 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_5a" title="Pixel 5a">5a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_6" title="Pixel 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_6a" title="Pixel 6a">6a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_7" title="Pixel 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_7a" title="Pixel 7a">7a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_Fold" title="Pixel Fold">Fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_8" title="Pixel 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_8a" title="Pixel 8a">8a</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_9" title="Pixel 9">Pixel 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_9_Pro_Fold" title="Pixel 9 Pro Fold">Pixel 9 Pro Fold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Google_Pixel_smartphones" title="Comparison of Google Pixel smartphones">Comparison</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/List_of_Google_Play_edition_devices" title="List of Google Play edition devices">Play Edition</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Project_Ara" title="Project Ara">Project Ara</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Laptops and tablets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chromebook" title="Chromebook">Chromebook</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Nexus" title="Google Nexus">Nexus</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_7_(2012)" title="Nexus 7 (2012)">7 (2012)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_7_(2013)" title="Nexus 7 (2013)">7 (2013)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_10" title="Nexus 10">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nexus_9" title="Nexus 9">9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comparison_of_Google_Nexus_tablets" title="Comparison of Google Nexus tablets">Comparison</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Pixel" title="Google Pixel">Pixel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chromebook_Pixel" title="Chromebook Pixel">Chromebook Pixel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixelbook" title="Pixelbook">Pixelbook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixelbook_Go" title="Pixelbook Go">Pixelbook Go</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_C" title="Pixel C">C</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_Slate" title="Pixel Slate">Slate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pixel_Tablet" title="Pixel Tablet">Tablet</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Wearables</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fitbit" title="Fitbit">Fitbit</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Fitbit_products" title="List of Fitbit products">List of 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chromebit" title="Chromebit">Chromebit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chromebox" title="Chromebox">Chromebox</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Clips" title="Google Clips">Clips</a></i></li> <li>Digital media players <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Chromecast" title="Chromecast">Chromecast</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nexus_Player" title="Nexus Player">Nexus Player</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nexus_Q" title="Nexus Q">Nexus Q</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dropcam" title="Dropcam">Dropcam</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liquid_Galaxy" title="Liquid Galaxy">Liquid Galaxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Nest" title="Google Nest">Nest</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Google_Nest_(smart_speakers)" title="Google Nest (smart speakers)">Smart Speakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nest_Thermostat" title="Nest Thermostat">Thermostat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nest_Wifi" title="Nest Wifi">Wifi</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_OnHub" title="Google OnHub">OnHub</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pixel_Visual_Core" title="Pixel Visual Core">Pixel Visual Core</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance" title="Google Search Appliance">Search Appliance</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sycamore_processor" title="Sycamore processor">Sycamore processor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Tensor" title="Google Tensor">Tensor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tensor_Processing_Unit" title="Tensor Processing Unit">Tensor Processing Unit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Titan_Security_Key" title="Titan Security Key">Titan Security Key</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div 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Google, Inc.">Feldman v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rescuecom_Corp._v._Google_Inc." title="Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc.">Rescuecom Corp. v. Google Inc.</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Goddard_v._Google,_Inc." title="Goddard v. Google, Inc.">Goddard v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_Ltd._v._Google,_Inc." title="Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc.">Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google,_Inc._v._American_Blind_%26_Wallpaper_Factory,_Inc." title="Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc.">Google, Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc.</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jedi_Blue" title="Jedi Blue">Jedi Blue</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Antitrust</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google_by_the_European_Union" title="Antitrust cases against Google by the European Union">European Union</a> (2010–present)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation" title="High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation">United States v. Adobe Systems, Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corporation, Intuit, Inc., and Pixar</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Umar_Javeed,_Sukarma_Thapar,_Aaqib_Javeed_vs._Google_LLC_and_Ors." title="Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC and Ors.">Umar Javeed, Sukarma Thapar, Aaqib Javeed vs. Google LLC and Ors.</a></i> (2019)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2020)" title="United States v. Google LLC (2020)">United States v. Google LLC</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Google_LLC_(2023)" title="United States v. Google LLC (2023)">United States v. Google LLC</a></i> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Intellectual property</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Perfect_10,_Inc._v._Amazon.com,_Inc." title="Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.">Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc.</a> and A9.com Inc. and Google Inc.</i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._YouTube,_Inc." title="Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.">Viacom International Inc. v. YouTube, Inc.</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lenz_v._Universal_Music_Corp." title="Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.">Lenz v. Universal Music Corp.</a></i>(2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc." title="Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc.">Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Field_v._Google,_Inc." title="Field v. Google, Inc.">Field v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_Inc." title="Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.">Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.</a></i> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smartphone_patent_wars" title="Smartphone patent wars">Smartphone patent wars</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Privacy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Bank_v._Google,_Inc." title="Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google, Inc.">Rocky Mountain Bank v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hibnick_v._Google,_Inc." title="Hibnick v. Google, Inc.">Hibnick v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/United_States_v._Google_Inc." title="United States v. Google Inc.">United States v. Google Inc.</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judgement_of_the_German_Federal_Court_of_Justice_on_Google%27s_autocomplete_function" title="Judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice on Google's autocomplete function">Judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice on Google's autocomplete function</a> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc." title="Joffe v. Google, Inc.">Joffe v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mosley_v_SARL_Google" title="Mosley v SARL Google">Mosley v SARL Google</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Spain_v_AEPD_and_Mario_Costeja_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González">Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Frank_v._Gaos" title="Frank v. Gaos">Frank v. Gaos</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Garcia_v._Google,_Inc." title="Garcia v. Google, Inc.">Garcia v. Google, Inc.</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_LLC_v_Defteros" title="Google LLC v Defteros">Google LLC v Defteros</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Google" title="Epic Games v. Google">Epic Games v. Google</a></i> (2021)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gonzalez_v._Google_LLC" title="Gonzalez v. Google LLC">Gonzalez v. 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navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Related" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Related</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Terms and phrases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil" title="Don't be evil">Don't be evil</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gayglers" title="Gayglers">Gayglers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_(verb)" title="Google (verb)">Google (verb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_bombing" title="Google bombing">Google bombing</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Political_Google_bombs_in_the_2004_U.S._presidential_election" title="Political Google bombs in the 2004 U.S. presidential election">2004 U.S. presidential election</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_effect" title="Google effect">Google effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Googlefight" title="Googlefight">Googlefight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_hacking" title="Google hacking">Google hacking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Googleshare" title="Googleshare">Googleshare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_tax" title="Google tax">Google tax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Googlewhack" title="Googlewhack">Googlewhack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Googlization" title="Googlization">Googlization</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Illegal_flower_tribute" title="Illegal flower tribute">Illegal flower tribute</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rooting_(Android)" title="Rooting (Android)">Rooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Search_engine_manipulation_effect" title="Search engine manipulation effect">Search engine manipulation effect</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sitelink" title="Sitelink">Sitelink</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Site_reliability_engineering" title="Site reliability engineering">Site reliability engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/YouTube_poop" title="YouTube poop">YouTube poop</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Documentary_films_about_Google" title="Category:Documentary films about Google">Documentaries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/AlphaGo_(film)" title="AlphaGo (film)">AlphaGo</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Behind_the_Screen" title="Google Behind the Screen">Google: Behind the Screen</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_Maps_Road_Trip" title="Google Maps Road Trip">Google Maps Road Trip</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Google_and_the_World_Brain" title="Google and the World Brain">Google and the World Brain</a></i></li> 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title="Attention Is All You Need">Attention Is All You Need</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/ElgooG" title="ElgooG">elgooG</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Predictions_of_the_end_of_Google" title="Predictions of the end of Google">Predictions of the end</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Registry" title="Google Registry">Registry</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/.app_(top-level_domain)" title=".app (top-level domain)">.app (top-level domain)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/.dev" title=".dev">.dev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G.co" title="G.co">g.co</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/.google" title=".google">.google</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pimp_My_Search" title="Pimp My Search">Pimp My Search</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Relationship_between_Google_and_Wikipedia" title="Relationship between Google and Wikipedia">Relationship with Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sensorvault" title="Sensorvault">Sensorvault</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_Digital_Library_Project" title="Stanford Digital Library Project">Stanford Digital Library Project</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><i>Italics</i> indicate <a href="/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discontinued_products_and_services" title="List of Google products">discontinued products or services</a>.</li> <li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/23px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/31px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Category:Google" 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scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Professional_network_service" title="Professional network service">Professional</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Academia.edu" title="Academia.edu">Academia.edu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Behance" title="Behance">Behance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brainly" title="Brainly">Brainly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HCL_Connections" title="HCL Connections">HCL Connections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LinkedIn" title="LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moodle" title="Moodle">Moodle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ResearchGate" title="ResearchGate">ResearchGate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solaborate" title="Solaborate">Solaborate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viadeo" title="Viadeo">Viadeo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/XING" title="XING">XING</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yammer" class="mw-redirect" title="Yammer">Yammer</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services" title="List of defunct social networking services">Defunct</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/App.net" title="App.net">App.net</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AsianAve" title="AsianAve">AsianAve</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avatars_United" title="Avatars United">Avatars United</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bebo" title="Bebo">Bebo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolt_(website)" title="Bolt (website)">Bolt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BranchOut" title="BranchOut">BranchOut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capazoo" title="Capazoo">Capazoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cloob" title="Cloob">Cloob</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EConozco" title="EConozco">eConozco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmodo" title="Edmodo">Edmodo</a></li> 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title="MixBit">MixBit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobli" title="Mobli">Mobli</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mugshot_(website)" title="Mugshot (website)">Mugshot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiply_(website)" title="Multiply (website)">Multiply</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Musical.ly" title="Musical.ly">Musical.ly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natter_(social_network)" title="Natter (social network)">Natter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Netlog" title="Netlog">Netlog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NK.pl" title="NK.pl">NK.pl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orkut" title="Orkut">Orkut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Path_(social_network)" title="Path (social network)">Path</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Periscope_(service)" title="Periscope (service)">Periscope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pheed" title="Pheed">Pheed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piczo" title="Piczo">Piczo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PlanetAll" title="PlanetAll">PlanetAll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Posterous" title="Posterous">Posterous</a></li> 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