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Google lays off hundreds of employees in its core engineering team, and others working on Google Assistant and Google's hardware products.
2024-01-11

Google+ starts deleting consumer accounts from its social network Google++ due to low user engagement and the discovery of security vulnerabilities which potentially exposed user data to developers.
2019-04-2

Google+ announces that it is shutting down its Google++ network for consumers after seven years due to "very low usage" and a software error, first reported by "The Wall Street Journal", that potentially exposed the data of 500,000 users. Google++ will fully shut down in August 2019.
2018-10-8

Warner Brothers is accused of self-censorship after it tagged its own websites for copyright infringement through the search engine Google.
2016-09-6

Google+ announces Google++ now has more than 500 million user accounts, 235 million of which actively use Google++ features.
2012-12-6

Google++, the social network service developed by search engine giant Google+, is released to the general public.
2011-09-21

The "People's Daily", a Chinese stated-owned newspaper, accuses Internet search engine giant Google of becoming a "political tool" after it claimed that computer hacking aimed at it came from China.
2011-06-6

Google agrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to have an independent privacy audit every couple of years as a result of problems with the Google Buzz social network.
2011-03-31

Google announces plans to make the U.S. city of Kansas City, Kansas the first site in its ultra-high speed broadband network.
2011-03-30

After the Egyptian government censorship of social media websites (such as Twitter, Facebook and Google), internet access and SMS networks are cut off in response to anti-government protests.
2011-01-28