Google+ is reborn: it is now called Google Currents

Google resurrects Google+ with a new name and a new purpose: it will serve to manage corporate communications between colleagues and business partners.

(Photo: Getty Images) Like the Phoenician Arab rising from its ashes, so Google has decided to resurrect Google+ thanks to a targeted rebranding process of the platform that has transformed it in all respects into a new product.

Google Currents is therefore born a new platform, already available for iOS and operating systems. Android, dedicated to professionals. As with competitors Slack and Microsoft Teams, Currents allows you to stay in touch with colleagues to collaborate on corporate projects but, unlike rivals, it is reserved only for users who have a G Suite account.

Google Currents will allow you to follow the hashtags related to the workplace (Photo: Google) Of its previous existence as Google+, Currents has kept the Tags and Streams but has preferred to move the fulcrum of the platform on the interactions between colleagues and professional partners. Users will be able to share links, images, texts, surveys and files directly from the Google Drive cloud archive.

The intention of the platform is to decongest email accounts by eliminating all conversations between colleagues or working partners by migrating them to Currents. Here the contents received in your home stream can be arranged in chronological order or by relevance and managerial messages will always be highlighted. On Currents, the files dedicated to the projects in progress can be organized to remain always at hand.

The relationship with his past in the guise of Google+, you note in the fact that Google has chosen to migrate all of the url plus.google.com . Now these addresses will incur an automatic redirection towards the dominio.google.com allowing you to keep any data and information contained in the pages of Google+.

The ill-fated social network, was permanently closed in April 2019 , but Big G has maintained an active service for some of the companies that have asked to use it as a tool of communication with its employees the. These companies are served by a tester for the rebirth of the platform and now will make the migration from Google+ to Currents without problems.