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20 Sep 2011
Google has ended the 12-week invitation-only period for Google+ and has opened the social networking service as a beta to the general public.
Google+ was launched earlier this year into a social networking market dominated by Facebook. The service received a favourable response, but reviewers saw little to seriously threaten the market leader.
Google has also added mobile and recording updates to the Hangouts conferencing platform in Google+, and enhanced the search function.
"We're nowhere near done but, with the improvements we've made so far, we're ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups," wrote Google senior vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra in a blog post.
"This way anyone can visit google.com/+, join the project and connect with the people they care about."
Google+ is likely to remain a public beta for some time. The company is known for keeping its web applications and services a beta stage products for extended periods.
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