2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
In 2011, the technology giant Google presented its own social network to the world, with which it intended to become the strongest competition for Facebook and other digital platforms that dominated the market at the time. Just seven years later, the company announced that it will close Google+.
As reported by Google through an article written by Ben Smith, the organization's vice president of engineering, the fact that Google+ did not become a massive phenomenon became one of the main reasons why the company made the decision to end the life of your platform.
"There are major problems in creating and maintaining a Google+ that can meet the expectations of users," reads part of the report written by Smith, who detailed in his brief the results of an investigation that determined sufficient reasons not to extend the existence of the application.. "We will close Google+ for consumers," he added.
An additional report from CNN, shared on its online site, also added that the decision is due to the fact that the technology giant has also faced security problems on its platform, which has exposed the personal information of thousands of users..
More than 500,000 Google+ profiles were affected by a system failure that allowed application developers to access private information on these accounts. Although the problem was detected last March, Smith said that so far there is no evidence that the information has been used improperly.
Similar security breaches, sparked a worldwide controversy for the social network Facebook, after it was revealed that a company associated with the presidential campaign of then Republican candidate Donald Trump had access to private information from more than 87 million users.
