Google Plus Tips & Tricks

Search has always brought you information from across the web. Now, search gets better by including photos, posts, and more from you and your friends. Music: "We Are Young" by Vassy featuring Tim Myers. Learn more at http://google.com/insidesearch/plus.html

According to Matt Mastracci (CTO and founder of DotSpots) Hashtags are getting a bit of a boost with auto-completion. When you type the hash character, you’ll see a list of potential auto-completions (this doesn’t appear to be hooked up to any data). When you hit space, it turns into a blue block containing the hashtag, which acts like the blue blocks that contain + mentions

A Google executive has fired back at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissive claim that Google+ is Google’s “own little version of Facebook.” Google+ was one of several topics Zuckerberg, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and PBS’s Charlie Rose discussed in an in-depth interview that aired Monday evening.

With Direct Connect, you can automatically add Google+ pages to your circles from Google Search. Just add + in front of the page you're searching for. Music: Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix), by spinningmerkaba.

The new Google+ brand pages look similar to Google+ Profiles, except for the little square icon that designates that it’s a Page rather than a Profile. Users can add brands such as Fox News, the Dallas Cowboys and Angry Birds to their circles, check out their information and browse their photos. When users add a brand to their circles, it increases that brand’s follower count.

Circle Me! http://wt1.me/MyGooglePlus Google+ is now open to the public! Will you give Google+ another chance now that it's open to everyone?

Circle me at http://jameslawsonsmith.info/+ Here is a basic guide on how to use GooglePlus. It will guide you through all the basics of what you nee to get you started.

Starting today, we're rolling out a new option to Ignore people on Google+, in addition to the existing (and stronger) option to Block them.

We're rolling out profile verification badges for celebrities, public figures, and people who have been added to lots of circles. Stay tuned as we expand this feature to more Google+ users.

Games are rolling out to field trial users in Google+, and coming to all accounts soon. Learn more about games in Google+ and take a whirlwind tour of the what's available.