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Google Plus for Business

Google’s New Home Page Pushes You to Plus Along with launching a new social sharing (don't call it networking!) service and adding authorship view to search results , Google changed the way its iconic front page looked today. Phew! I'm tuckered out and all I did was blog. Poorly. The new front page shrinks the logo a bit, and moves all the links to the top and bottom edges. Most obvious, however, is the black bar across the top that lists Google's various services. To aid in navigation there's a small red tab that appears above and behind the specific property you're currently on, be it Web or Gmail or Maps or whatever. It's got largely the same links that a signed-in homepage had yesterday, but the color-coding makes it very obvious where you are, and shows off all those other services in a way that Google hasn't always been good at. It's Google explicitly reminding you that it has a lot of tools. And it ...