Google has quietly shelved the feature which pushed users with a new Google+ account, on signing up for a gmail account.
According to a report that has appeared in Marketing Land Google quietly dropped the requirement that new users create a Google+ profile when they sign up for a Google account.
Google+ is the social network platform of Google which has been witnessing good competition from Facebook.
After the demise of Orkut Google started concentrating on the Google+
service, but this could not take off as expected. So, in year 2012
Google made it mandatory for the gmail users to have a Google+ account,
by default.
This comes via the fresh information posted by Larry Kim,
which was confirmed by Google. Larry Kim gets it confirmed by Google
via an email from official Google spokesperson which says "we updated
the signup experience in early September. Users can now create a public
profile during signup, or later, if and when they share public content
for the first time (like a restaurant review, YouTube video or Google+
post)."
There is a ‘No thanks’ button added to the page that says whether
your Google+ page should be created alongside the email account.
“It remains to be seen if this slight tweak represents some sort of
greater signal regarding Google's ambitions with Google+,” comments PCMag.
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