New Search Features & Feel

Today, we’re rolling out a bevy of improvements to G+ Search — most visibly, you’ll find that typing into the search bar no longer interrupts your search attempts by taking you to Explore. That means that your results get to you that much faster!

That’s not all…
• A new, tabbed interface will make it easier for you to find the exact type of content that you’re looking for.
• In the posts tab, you can filter based on the post author. Finally, you can look back at your many years of G+ posting without being distracted by everyone else’s Neko Atsume updates!
• Popular Topics are now displayed in the search bar dropdown.

As always, let us know what you think and we hope you enjoy!

Community Member Activity View

We’re rolling out a new Communities feature that allows owners, moderators, and members to view the posts from any community member.

You can access the Member Activity View via a post’s three-dot menu (by selecting, for example, “View Carole McKay’s activity”) or via a member’s hovercard (by selecting “View community activity”).

G Suite Admins: Audit Google+ user activity for your organization

Now, G Suite admins will be able to see when the following events are performed in Google+ in their organization right in the audit logs:

Post created
Post edited
Post deleted
Comment created
Comment edited
Comment deleted
+1 added to a post
+1 added to a comment
+1 removed from a post
+1 removed from a comment
Poll vote added
Poll vote removed

And you can also track:
Number of activities performed per day by each individual user
Number of communities where at least one of the community owners is within your domain
Number of collections within your organization

Get all the details on the G Suite​ Updates blog
https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/07/adding-new-google-metrics-to-admin.html

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/07/adding-new-google-metrics-to-admin.html

‘Remove, Report, and Ban’ Post Option for Community Moderators

We’re happy to announce that moderators now have better tools to keep their communities healthy and happy with a ‘Remove, Report, and Ban’ option on community posts. Accessed via the post overflow menu (aka three dots), the option will remove the post and member from the community, report the post to Google for us to look at, and ban the member from joining the community again.

As always, this feature is rolling out to community moderators over the next several hours. Enjoy!

Reshare to Google+ in fewer clicks

As of today, when you hit the share icon on a Google+ post, you’ll automatically be taken to a Google+ reshare of the post. Previously, users were given an option between Google+ and other social options. This was done in an effort to reduce the number of clicks it took you to reshare Google+ content on Google+. While there is no longer direct share capability to other social sites, copy/paste from the address bar in your browser still works just fine.

We hope this will make your experience here a little bit more seamless and thanks for the feedback that got us here!

Making the G+1 button load more quickly

The G+1 button is shown billions of times per day on web pages around the world, so it’s important that it load as quickly and efficiently as possible. To make it easier for people to load and share the pages they’re interested in, we’ve created a simpler G+1 button sharing experience.

Beginning in a few weeks, clicking the +1 button will open a streamlined new Google+ sharing dialog, and the G+1 button will no longer display a +1 count. If you’re a publisher, you can rest assured that these +1s do not affect search ranking and the size and layout of the button will remain the same.

These changes will only affect the G+1 button outside of Google+. The +1 button within Google+ will continue to work the same way it always has.

If you’d like to view all of the pages you’ve +1’d over the years, you can download a list using Google Takeout.

We hope this change makes it that much easier to check out and recommend all the interesting things you discover!

Our top bar got a (minor) makeover

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve replaced the red in our top navigation bar with white in certain destinations on web (iOS coming soon) to make everything a little nicer on the eyes. Based on your feedback, we think you guys are gonna like this. Enjoy!

What’s new with Google+

Hey there Plussers! I’m your friendly neighborhood G+ Server Eng Manager, and I wanted to take a little time to tell you some of the great things the G+ team is working on. As always, we listen carefully to your feedback, and in the coming months, we’ll be focusing on your most highly requested areas of improvement, including:

• Better spam control
• Enhanced community moderation
• Improvements to the web user experience
• More intuitive navigation and discovery
• Cleaner notifications

And more that we’ll reveal as they become available 😉

We’ve heard your desire to stay informed about G+ product updates. Going forward, you can expect to hear more from me; our Product Managers, like John Nack​, our Program Managers, like Carter Gibson​; and Community Managers, like Leanne Osborne​ and Madeleine DeRome​. We’ll try our best to reply to questions and keep you up to date on all the great progress.

Thanks!

Improved Photo Browsing

Hi friendly iOS users,

We’re proud to announce an improved photo browsing experience. Now, when you tap on a photo, you get a richer experience where you can (1) zoom-in (2) scroll to see more photos and (3) pinch or tap the icon in the top right to see a mosaic view of the photos in the stream. One of my favorite uses of this is to browse Leo Deegan’s photo collections, check it out and bring on the feedback!