Google+ is alive! But now it wants to be more like Reddit than Facebook

Social network is focusing on communities and collections, in a bid to be less like Zuckerberg's social network and more like sites such as Pinterest

We all thought Google+ was dead; Google+ is not, it turns out, dead. The search firm's on-again-off-again obsession with building a successful social network is on, again.

Just a few months ago, Google announced that it was stripping features from Google+ in an effort to offer "a more focused" experience, a move many saw as the first step towards an eventual shutdown of the site. For the first time since it was launched, users were freed from the requirement to have a Plus account to use popular features of Google such as sharing content, chatting with contacts, or creating a YouTube channel.