Questions about Google+ are forever coming up, even though any executive at Google would tell you they are happy with performance on the social network.
Currently it is unknown how many users are on Google+ and actively use the social networks as the first means for messaging friends and updating, sharing content. One analyst says the social network has over 300 million members, most from developing countries.
Despite the social networks long term plan, Google wants to continue work on Google+ and has redesigned the stream to bring content closer to the user with larger videos and photos.
Google has also added some new technical features like personalised hashtags. When someone hashtags, you can then click the hashtag and see other popular content on the web and content curated to your specific likes.
Another pretty awesome feature added is the ability for Google to auto-hashtag for you, they do this by checking the status update and looking at the photo with Knowledge Graph technology, to see if it looks like anything else, Google+ will then add appropriate hashtags.
Google also released a unified messaging service called Hangouts, built for iOS, Android and the web. Hangouts allows normal chat, group chat and face-to-face chat, in multiple groups too. This does not cost and the app is free to all users, we are not sure when it will be released on all platforms.
Photos is the last new improvement on Google+ and we are really excited by some of the new features Google has added. The first is creating collections and making sure the best photos stand out in a huge collection of photos uploaded at once.
Google has also added auto-enhance, a new tool allowing users to enhance photos to make them seem real and beautiful. Google will apparently do all the work for you and if it doesn’t look good there is options to take the auto-enhance features off.
