Google+, still hangin' in there!

With the recent purchase of Instagram by Facebook, Google+ is still lagging behind in the race to be "the best social media." Google+. Vic Gundotra, a senior VP at Google, wrote in a blog post that Google+ was going to undergo yet another upgrade in an effort to make it "easier to use and nicer to look at, but most importantly, it accelerates efforts to create a simpler, more beautiful Google," but I think everyone knows they just want to be better than Facebook.

The most noticeable changes are the design changes that are supposed to make the pages easier to navigate and organize. As mentioned previously, with the Facebook now owning Instagram, Google+ had to improve the way photos were streamed on their user's pages, again, another war with Facebook. But a new feature that is unlike Facebook is the new Explore page, which allows users to see what is really popular in the Google+ world, not just with your friends. True you could always just google trending topics or find those on Twitter, but I guess the Explore option is kind of cool.

But there is no denying that Google+ has something going on for them that Facebook does, and that is The Hangouts. Businesses and friends are using this feature pretty consistently and Google+ has received mostly positive feedback about The Hangouts.

Gundotra says that these changes are laying the groundwork for further improvement to Google+. So keep a look out for all these changes!

So here's to hoping that Google+ finally gets a break and succeeds one of these days. But lets just FACE it, FACEbook is taking over the internet, only a few competitors really stand a chance of being as popular.