Google Revamp

Google+ has been revived and redesigned in an attempt to get it going one more time.

16:29 19 November 2015

Google+ was founded to compete directly against Facebook and Twitter. It works the same way allowing people to set up accounts and add friends. However, despite huge pushes from Google, it wasn't well-received as the company hoped it would be.

 

Now, Google is reviving its very own social network in an attempt to get it going one more time. The company has been slowly removing features that came with the original Google + putting them into their own apps. The site has been redesigned and unlike before, it looks more like a forum than Facebook or Twitter, made up of collections and communities.

 

Google said they reached out to users to figure out exactly what they were looking for.

 

“We visited them in their homes, we invited them into early testing communities and we learned more about how and why they use Google+,” wrote Luke Wroblewski, a product director at Google, in a post on the site.

 

“The predominant answer? Having a great place to keep up with and talk about their interests.”