When Google launched Google+ ten years ago, it started integrating its social network into most of its apps, then in 2019 it closed it for consumers and last year for G Suite users, with which the company disassociated itself before its Google+ closure from the rest of its products, but to this day there is still an app that depends on the disappeared Google+.
It’s about the app Google phone, in particular the search engine Nearby sites, a feature that is currently broken due to the outdated Google+ links.
Nearby Google Phone Sites
The marker Google phone integrates a search engine with which it allows us find the phone number of any business nearby, as if it were stored in our diary. When we start to write the name of a business among our contacts, we will see suggestions of nearby sites.
In the search results we can call or see the contact sheet by clicking on the contact image. There we access more options, such as sending an SMS, making a video call, starting a route with Google Maps or see more information about this company.
Well, it’s in “Informations about” where we still find a link to the company profile on Google+ it does not work, because for months are all outdated Google+ links. Clicking on this link will take us to a page that informs us that Google+ is no longer available.
During all this time Google has not fixed this functionality in its application yet. Phone. Instead, this issue was fixed in the Google search engine. There, when searching for nearby sites, if it is correctly linked to the Google Business listing.
Now that this problem is gaining visibility, it is expected that Google will get to work to resolve it, since it would only have to link to the Google Business profile and not to the non-existent Google+.
Via | Android Police
