Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by _khwc » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

Using Google without a Google+ profile
googleblog.blogspot.com

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by danso » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:21 PM UTC

The OP links to a corresponding YouTube blog post with more specifics about how the G+ rollback affects the YouTube service (as of today, YouTube comments will only show up on YouTube, and not on G+, and vice-versa):

http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/07/youtube-comments....

It also mentions improvements to the ranking system "that reduces the visibility of junk comments. It’s working—the rate of dislikes on comments has dropped by more than 35 percent across YouTube."...Is there a whitepaper or engineering blog post about their technical approach to this?

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by thachmai » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

Goodbye Google+. We hardly knew you.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by colbyh » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:35 PM UTC

Though not the end of G+, hopefully it will be the end of G+ as we know it. From day one G+ should have simply been a social mesh between the many (very) popular Google properties like YouTube, Play, Maps, etc. Making it a standalone application was their fatal mistake, and here's hoping Bradley can lead them towards becoming a social utility instead of a social platform.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by marbletiles » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:36 PM UTC

It's incredible how lightly they have thrown away the Google+ Account For Everything stance given how merciless they were in imposing it at the time. The wails from YouTube in particular have only just died down.

Kudos to them, but a lot of pain could have been avoided if they did all this listening back then, instead of waiting until their thing was clearly dead.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by acqq » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:41 PM UTC

Nice to read this, especially as I was quite annoyed with the "new" contacts management which gmail gives. It appears it tries to "combine" the email addresses you have to the same "person" entry not even allowing you to have two entries for the two addresses, no, they know the addresses belong to the same person and they won't let you. And all that combined with Plus. I hope that gets fixed.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by amelius » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

Honestly, I would be happier to use this product if it were not from Google. They already know too much.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by Zikes » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

One very important change they can make on the G+ mobile app is to make the Share button open up the Share Intents menu, instead of just re-posting to my own G+ page. G+ can't very well grow without escaping its own echo chamber, can it? Let me post links to Twitter and such!

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by msandford » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

Google's new motto:

"Don't be evil, but only after trying really hard to be so, and then grudgingly accepting that perhaps your users have alternatives that they might avail themselves of, and capitulate"

It's not as catchy, but perhaps a little more honest.

Re: Using Google without a Google+ profile

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Post by beambot » Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

marbletiles wrote: post #5

It's incredible how lightly they have thrown away the Google+ Account For Everything stance given how merciless they were in imposing it at the time. The wails from YouTube in particular have only just died down. Kudos to them, but a lot of pain could have been avoided if they did all this listening back then, instead of waiting until their thing was clearly dead.

Grumble grumble... Google Reader... grumble.