Google+ climbs in a polls

Have we been using Google+ lately? If we have, we haven’t been alone. According to Google, a series of monthly active users on Google+ jumped from 390 million in May to 540 million users today.

“With 540 million people active opposite Google any month, 300 million people active in only a tide and some-more than 1.5 billion photos uploaded each week, a Google+ village is flourishing faster than we ever could have imagined,” wrote Vic Gundotra, a Google comparison clamp president, in a blog post. “Today’s updates are a approach of observant ‘thank you.’ We wish they save we time and assistance we share your story.”

And in that vein, Google announced improvements to Google+ Hangouts and a print feature that are directed during creation it easier to message, print edit, and make video calls.

For Hangouts, Google has attempted to tweaked a video job experience, creation it full shade opposite both mobile and desktops and enhancing webcam lighting automatically.

Hangouts for Android now supports plcae pity and SMS.

“This approach we can send a map of your stream plcae contra anticipating and typing an address, and we can send and accept SMS contra switching between apps,” Gundotra wrote. “Animated GIFs also play inline.”

The Android app and video job facilities will be accessible in a few days, according to Google.

Photo government improved

Google is also relocating to make it easier to save, organize, edit, and share photos and videos on Google+.

Gundotra pronounced with Google+ for iOS, users will have their photos and video automatically corroborated adult as they take them with a further of full-size backups and credentials sync.

Google also is regulating a imagination in hunt to make it easier for users to find a one print they’re looking for out of a thousands they’ve taken. Google+ now recognizes 1000 opposite objects, including sunsets and snowmen, so users can form in a hunt for a print they’re looking for in their print library.

Other print updates embody involuntary enhancements, collection for modifying on a go, and a ability to erase neglected relocating objects , such as a automobile in a background, from a photo.