Vic Gundotra recently announced his departure

Absrtact: The senior Indian Vice President Vic Gundotra, who grew up with Google +, announced his departure from the first day. Gundotra, one of the top executives of Google's public-awareness and voice, has also been an important speaker at the Google I/O conference. Google long

The senior Indian Vice President Vic Gundotra, who grew up with Google + from the first day, announced his departure. Gundotra, one of the top executives of Google's public-awareness and voice, has also been an important speaker at the Google I/O conference. Will Google's long effort to get a slice of the social network be Gundotra with the departure of the other?

In Gundotra's letter of resignation, he expressed his luck and gratitude, stressing that he wanted to spend more time with his family and that he had no intention of seeking another job.

The successor to Gundotra's post was former veteran, Google engineering vice President Dave Besbris. As one of the veterans of Google +, Besbris has been a great contributor to both products, operations and strategy since the birth of Google +.

Compared with Gundotra, Besbris more low-key, Google employee comments Besbris more like a dreamer than a businessman. It is also judged that Besbris is an excellent engineer, but not necessarily able to stand at a higher level to look at and make decisions about the product's direction.

And from Besbris's appointment-retaining the Vice president's position without being promoted to Senior Vice President (SVP), it has been speculated that Google has slowed its growth. The fact is, not everyone in Google's important project is in the SVP. For example, Brian McClendon, who leads Google Maps, is still the VP level.

Among the more than 1000 employees of Google +, the number of star employees remains to be reckoned with. For example, a former CTO of the music recognition application Shazam, Jason Titus, a founder of the Google + Engineering director, Nikhyle Singhal, one of the founders of the Communications Voice Technology Saynow, was recently named Google + after the Saynow takeover. Photo and video Group chat tools play an important role in hangout.

Since 2011, when Google + was online, many people have been pinning their hopes on Facebook or even surpassing the latter. But it seems that Google + has not expanded its popularity beyond the minority groups such as Google employees and anti-Facebook groups.

Over the past few weeks, there has been a rumour about the dynamics of Google +. Although the sound from Google's interior is still not going to be a big bang on Google +. But there is anecdotal speculation that Google + is likely to be split, and that parts of the picture will most likely be split.

The current Google + is made up of four parts: something like a new social stream (Social stream), photos, information (hangout), and identity authentication with a Google account.

Although the current social exchange is the least bullish, many Google employees have expressed doubts about whether or not to keep it. But since 2013, the social exchange has more than 500 million months of users, 300 million months active users. It's hard to say whether Google will cut off the service as it did when it shut down Google reader. The main reason for closing Google reader last July 15, according to Google, is its diminishing number of users and the degree of activity.

And many parts of Google + are complementary to other Google products. For example, social exchange and Gmail, automatic installation of hangout in Android system, identity authentication and Google search, etc. According to data from Google, more and more users tend to log in when using Google products. This trend is particularly evident in Android products, where many users choose Google accounts rather than Facebook when they are asked to register.

Perhaps, as Gundotra in the open letter, the future of Google +, with its ample user base and outstanding functionality, is just beginning.