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Find content and communities from all across Google+ with Discover

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Find content and communities from all across Google+ with Discover Big news today Google+! We’re rolling a brand new Discover stream to help you and new users find the absolutely best content our network has to offer. If you glance over at your left-hand navigation bar, you’ll notice a shiny ‘Discover’ tab waiting to be explored. Inside, you’ll find trending posts from curated sources in a new, denser format. Also inside are Featured Collections, Recommended Communities, and the previously announced Topics - which got a bit of a makeover as well, so be sure to check them out! New and signed out users will land on Discover (previously ‘Featured Collections’) which puts content from a diverse set of sources front and center. We hope that this creates a better experience for new users that more readily communicates the awesome stuff G+ has to offer while providing existing users with a fun way to find and follow creators they haven’t yet, ahem, discovered. To make way for Discover, you ma...

New Search Features & Feel

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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

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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

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

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'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

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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

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 dis...