Google+ Social Network Has Been Opened To The Public Today

Google's new Social Network called Google+ (Goole Plus) has been opened for everybody. After being invite-only for nearly three months, it moved from “field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups,” said Vic Gundotra, Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering in the official company’s blog.

Other extras include screensharing with other users, the sketchpad for drawing or doodling together and Google Docs for common sharing. Search both on the web and in people’s profiles is also possible now, as Google has brought its search expertise to its social platform.

Google+ gained an extreme popularity when the service first launched in July and functioned only ‘on invitations’. The service attracted 20 million visitors in its first month, offering features that were not available on its biggest rival platform, Facebook. In comparison, Zuckerberg’s brainchild now has 750 million of users.

However, since then, Facebook has also launched a number of features that challenged Google’s offering. The leading social network improved Friend Lists and made changes to the News Feed, both of which equalize it with Google+, offering its Circles feature.