Hoping to help spotlight topics of interest, Chris Messina advocates labeling Google+ posts with the hashtags he brought to Twitter four years ago. But is there a better way? Stephen Shankland worked ...

Now when you search Google for hashtags, Google will add related Google+ posts to the right of regular search results, as long as they have been shared publicly or directly with you, and provide links ...

As well as allowing you to now control your posts a little more by enabling post locking and comments disabling, Google has now also quietly enabled a new search feature to their Google+ social ...

The integration of Google+ across Google properties continues in a big way today with the launch of hashtag search. Simply put, if you search Google for a hashtag, you might see Google+ posts using ...

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Google Maps has quietly rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users discover places others have recommended: it now supports hashtags in reviews. For example, if you’re reviewing a restaurant that ...

Google today announced it has added hashtag support to Google Search, but only for Google+ content. The update is rolling out “within the next few hours” to English language users on google.com and ...

Google now supports hashtag searches within Google+ from the search engine’s query result pages: The box on the right hand side of the screen automatically refreshes periodically and users can view ...

Hashtags are one thing that’s pretty popular on Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and just about every other social networking service. Why? Well it basically categorizes all the millions of posts ...

Hardly a day seems to go by without Google rolling out yet another feature for its Maps app, some more useful than others. The latest one to land is hashtag support for reviews. That’s right, Google ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect." So if you are big into #hashtagging everything, ...

Google+ started supporting hashtags in May, and today the company announced that Google Search will now allow you to search for Google+ posts by using these hashtags. Given that there’s a little bit ...