Google drops networking platform Google+

Google + was first introduced as a way to connect with friends and family and also use it as a search engine.

It seems that the internet giant has come to its senses and realised grouping its services under one roof has not worked, as it has been announced that YouTube users will only need a Google account in the coming months. The company has announced that it no longer requires Google+ accounts to use any of its products and it will continue to strip Google+ integration out of all of its products. Google aimed to make its own social network, Google+, a “platform layer”, a mobile app and product, an unified base for Google’s sharing models. He explained that the company’s well intentional goal could not be reached, since its experts realized Google+ has become a product that leads to experiences users may find confusing sometimes.

It means that you don’t need a Google Plus profile for performing several tasks within Google products, such as commenting on a YouTube video, among other ramifications, said a report in The Hindu. The Google exec agreed that it can be incredibly confusing. Google also says that in the future, YouTube users will be able to delete the Google+ accounts they were forced to make, without losing any data.

Meanwhile, the social network’s location sharing ability will be moved over to Hangouts and other unspecified apps, “where it really belongs”.

Google Plus claimed 300 million monthly active users in late 2013, although Stone Temple Consulting, a third-party digital marketing agency, pegged that figure at a far lower 111 million this past April.

“While we got certain things right, we made a few choices that, in hindsight, we’ve needed to rethink,” Horowitz writes, according to Business Insider.