Vic Gundotra On How Google+ Handled Brands: “It Was Probably A Mistake”

After warning people about it for weeks, Google began enforcing its ban on all Google business profiles this morning, to much consternation from, well, businesses. Yes Google did warn people at the launch of Google+ that any non-human pages would be killed and that people shouldn’t be surprised that the pages were killed…But of course, like when anything is axed on the Internet, people were up in arms. Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan wrote an"Open Letter To Google+ On The Subject Of Brand Pages"](Google Removes Mashable, Sesame Street & Other Prominent Accounts From Google Plus) and, emboldened, my colleague MG Siegler wrote the elegantly titled “****tard+.”](ParisLemon — Fucktarded+)

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