Exclusive: Sundar Pichai's Plan To Keep Google Almighty - Forbes

Excerpt from an extensive interview (full transcript here)

"“Google+ has always meant two things for us,” Pichai said. “There’s the stream in the product that you see.” But Google+ also provided a way for the company to ensure users were signed in to its services with “a common identity across our products,” he said. “The second part was in many ways even more important than the first part. That part has worked really well for us.”

But Pichai said that two important parts of Google+, Photos and Hangouts, may soon be separated from the main product. “I think increasingly you’ll see us focus on communications, photos and the Google+ Stream as three important areas, rather than being thought of as one area,” he said."

Exclusive: Sundar Pichai's Plan To Keep Google Almighty - Forbes