According to reports, Google+ leader Vic Gundotra has announced that he will be leaving Google. Since then, many changes to the future of Google+ have been reported. Unfortunately its primary purpose of competing with Facebook as a leader in social networking seems to not have had the success they had hoped. Google+ and its team will allegedly be redirected and re-purposed into other Google products.  

According to TechCrunch, the Google Hangouts team will move into the Android team. Other employees will most likely move into mobile projects, employing Google+ as a platform rather than a product. Although these changes have not been completely verified, it is the likely change the G+ platform will see.

A representative from Google informed TechCrunch that Gundotra’s leaving will not impact Google’s plans or strategies for Google+. It seems that efforts to integrate Google+ into other products like YouTube and Gmail will be scaled back if not stopped altogether. Although Google+ may have seen greater popularity than its seven million daily users of two years ago, these changes could mean it did not receive the massive growth they may have anticipated.