The last week has been littered with rumors about the future of Google+ – and to be honest people always questioned the future of Google’s social network. It was designed to take on Facebook however it never really took off; so will it join the likes of Google’s other social network flops like Orkut, Wave & Buzz? Bradley Horowitz,VP of Photos and Streams at Google, posted the following on his still existing Google+ profile:
Just wanted to confirm that the rumors are true — I’m excited to be running Google’s Photos and Streams products! It’s important to me that these changes are properly understood to be positive improvements to both our products and how they reach users.
The exact future of Google+ is unknown as of right now, however plenty of speculation has been made. So far we know that Bradley Horowitz new title is the VP of Photos and Streams, more-so he carefully avoids the use of the term Google+ within his posts. Things are clearly changing, and Google’s Photos and Streams division seems heavily involved.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens moving forward. What will the G+ button turn into. Will we as webmasters be replacing it with something, or will Google update the button to function differently?