Presented by: -Jaswinder Kaur

Contents What is Google+?Review of Google+Features of Google+Disadvantages of Google+

What is Google+ ?Google plus is a new social networking from Google.Much like Facebook . It allows people to share and discuss

status updates and links but with different group of people.

GrowthService was launched on 28th June 2011 (field testing

phase).On 14th July Google announced that Google+ has reached

10 million users just two weeks after launched in limited trial phase.

After three weeks it reached near 20 million users.In under a day, the Google+ iphone application was the

most popular free application in the apple application store.

Review Of Google+Google plus home pageImagesprofile

Google plus home page Avoiding all possible obstacles, as well as page Welcome

which gives general information about the service, we go to the page of G++

ImagesImages can also be uploaded in G+. Here your albums

from Picasa will be shown and you can add the mages.

ProfileProfile will show the information about youIt will also display Name, age, education, friend list,

photos, videos or about your circles.

Features of Google+CirclesHangoutsHuddleInstant uploadSparksPrivacy policyGames Google +1 buttonImport contacts

Circles Circles enables users to organize contacts into groups for sharing.

 Across various Google product and services. Although other users can view a list of people in a user's collection of circles, they cannot view the names of those circles. The privacy settings also allow users to hide the users in their circles as well as who have them in their circle.

Hangouts Hangouts are places used to facilitate group video chat.

However, anyone on the web could potentially join the "Hangout" if they happen to possess the unique URL of the Hangout.

Huddle Huddle is a feature available to Android, iPhone, and

SMS devices for communicating through instant messaging within circles.

Instant upload"Instant Upload" is specific to Android mobile devices. it

stores photos or video in a private album for sharing later.

SparksSparks" is a front-end to Google Search, enabling users to

identify topics they might be interested in sharing with others. Sparks helps to keep users posted on the latest updates on the topics of their interest.

Privacy policy Privacy settings allow you to control what information

someone will be available – who can see all your contact data, and only one working phone.

Games Here come the Google Plus games. Google has announced a big move

toward mainstream adoption today, integrating Web-based games within the brand new social network. "We want to make playing games online just as fun, and just as meaningful, as playing in real life," the announcement says. Titles include Angry Birds, Bejeweled Blitz, Zynga Poker and Sudoku. Google has launched a new Google Plus Platform Blog to help encourage more.

Google +1 buttonLast but not the least we have the Google +1 button which many say

mimics the Facebook ‘like’ button in many ways. Voting up a link or an article on google+1 will mean that you are sharing the article with all your followers and it will be displayed publicly on your profile allowing it to be voted up by your followers again and the possibility to go viral through consequent votes.

Importing Contacts from other social Network

Google+ includes a feature to invite contacts from Yahoo! and Hotmail. At this time, however, there is no official way to import Facebook contacts into Google+, but there are some work around to achieve it. 

Disadvantages of Google+Google reputation for privacyTwitter alternativesBig threat from FacebookGoogle’s own success as search

engine

Google reputation for privacyOnce again we are talking about Google reputation over privacy of

social network they launched. When Google launch Google Buzz, it was hot cake for social user but due to Google’s unique privacy policy people return their hands from it. when Google launch Google Buzz but with the time it all lost.This mainly because of Google’s own privacy policy.

Twitter alternativesTwitter are growing rapidly, we can see twitter has some

new changes this year in their policy and tactics. So this could create huge threat to Google plus.They are integrated into hugely popular iOS, so people can’t leave them or save some time to have more time with Google Plus.

Big threat for FacebookThis days Facebook are much more good alternative to

anything else. They also has private profile options, so the user who want this will not move to Google plus.

Google’s own success as search engine

People won’t think Google except a search engine. We know Google means anything to search on Google. This past success always create obstacles for user, when they heard about any product from Google. Though this is very much prediction over people’s mind but it might create a threat to Google plus.On the other hand Google has some strong competitor for this section. Bing is now rapidly growing into its search field. So Google has to think about this too.

ConclusionSummarizing, we can safely say that the start of Google

Plus came out good – where there’s initiative with the Wave. It now remains to make it all work cohesively work to add functionality.