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i'm here to show you what's next with google+ today we're introducing 41 new features across three major areas of google+ first a new newly designed stream a new hangouts application and a fundamentally new photos experience what you're going to see start rolling out later today is the new Google Plus which looks like this you can see we've taken that multi-column design and brought it to the desktop and really made something beautiful it's dynamic meaning depending upon the size of your screen it can either be one column to column or three columns and we've made sure to give you choice so if you go under the more menu you're always able to go to a single column if that's what you prefer of course in this multi-column design we've made sure that posts like photos and videos can span multiple columns so you get something that's truly immersive and we made sure that it's fast fluid and fun and so we put delightful animations throughout the product for example a share box that animates out menus that slide in and out to get out of the way and even cards and that flip and fade beautifully and today we're introducing related hashtags what we'll do is we'll analyze the content of a post and Google will put on the appropriate hashtag how does that work well let's take a look here's a post about the San go giants baseball team it's not just about that it's about buster posey a particular player as well and note in the top we've automatically tag that post and we know it's about those two topics but that's only half of the magic we also then rank and search the entire universe of Google+ content and we rank it just for you so when that clicks on one of those hashtags watch what happens we flip the card over and we then show you related items from the most important sources and social proximity to you amazing isn't it now if you think that's impressive let's take a look at another one of these posts in this case one of the noted photographers on our service has posted a picture of Paris in particular the Eiffel Tower nowhere in his post or in the comments is the word Eiffel Tower but if you notice google has automatically hashtag this with the Eiffel Tower how did we do that well we did image analysis and combined with the knowledge graph that recognizes important landmarks and Google knew that this was about the Eiffel Tower so if you click y you can just go deeper and click through other posts about the ipad power of course we deeply respect the content producer and so you always have the option of telling Google either on a particular post or globally whether you want your content to have this amazing related hashtags feature and if we ever get it wrong and have the wrong hashtag you could always exit out so we're introducing today a new application hangouts and we think we've built a product that is about conversations that last with people that you love now you're looking here at a list of conversations not contacts some of those conversations are one-on-one some of those conversations are group conversations but the primary pivot the focus is on those conversations now if Matt wants to get to his contacts maybe he wants to add someone it's one tap away you can see Google will rank the important people that he normally talks to and make that easily available for either a message or a video call but let's go back to the conversations there's several attributes about these conversations that are that I want to talk about the first is my favorite and that is these conversations can be long-lasting so as matt goes back in time why you're able to see that conversation imagine that you have your family in a conversation for many months or a year there's the holiday party there's the vacation you took together there's important moments like a like the birth of a child all those things are stored with you even as I even as you change devices in those long-running conversations of course we give you the ability to turn off history of course we give you the ability to delete those things but having the ability to save those conversations is I think delightful and amazing another aspect is that the conversations are rich and alive your photos are stored in albums this is amazing this baby's not even three months old and he's already learned how to facepalm okay but all the images that you shared as a family are all right there in addition to beautiful images that are easily stored and saved the conversation feels alive look at the bottom you can there see as people join they show up as they're typing they annum out you can see exactly where someone has read to it really feels like you're in the same room together and we think that's that's delightful by the way you're looking at it on the web you're looking at it on Android and you're looking at it on iOS all available today and by the way to other points one is the point that Hugo made I think you're going to love how the notifications are all synced so if you wipe a notification from the desktop or an engine on Android it'll go away on another device it's beautiful I think you'll like that but my favorite feature sorry about that and let's go back to the demo one other feature I didn't talk about that was pretty critical which is at Google we've always believed that the best way to do real-time communications is face to face to face and so in that conversation Matt can tap on the video icon and everyone in that conversation will be dropped into a video chat there you can see Matt he's into the video chat and everyone's being dropped in group video at no charge isn't that fantastic