Late last night Google finally revealed the social product it has been quietly working on in a bid to rival Facebook.
Google+, unlike its social product predecessors – such as the disastrous Google Buzz, needs to work this time around, especially to give investors and Google employees alike, the confidence that the recently-installed chief executive, Larry Page, is a safe pair of hands and a visionary who is more than capable of steering the technology giant through its next decade.
Since Page took over the reigns from Eric Schmidt (now elevated to Google’s executive chairman) in April earlier this year, we have barely heard a peep from him.
And deliberately so it would seem. Apart from a few choice words at the beginning of this month, in which Page defended the Google’s spending patterns and strategic vision, in an attempt to calm the company’s critics and stop the company share price tanking (which it has done by nearly $100 a share since Page took over), the new chief has been seen and heard publicly very little.
In fact the only other noise from Page, which leaked out of the sprawling Mountain View Google campus, during his first week at the helm, was in fact regarding Google+.
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