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Site visitors could always do with a little more content, right? But even if your site has lots of great articles, getting links to the right kind of stories can be problematic. So, Google will now feed appropriate content using recommendations from its social media service for mobile users.

At the end of last week, Google announced its figures for Q1 that showed Google up 16% on the year. Google cited increasing willingness by enterprises to use mobile advertising and Google tools as one of the reasons for the lift. This week it offers upgrades to those marketing tools with enhanced campaign improvements for Google+ and mobile apps.

Let's take a quick look at a few releases out this week aimed at increasing social and business insights, enabling video collaboration and putting your SharePoint show on the road.

Social media sites are quite adept at capturing information about us, and every update and added feature is usually a way to make this task easier. Google+ is no different, and the latest updates include larger cover photos and minor profile layout changes.

Instead of signing in to apps with Facebook or Twitter, there's now the option to sign in with Google+.

Anyone who's ever wondered how to measure social media impact, should take note of the most influential CEOs on social media.

In 2012, the social media landscape got manicured. Many more prominent channels emerged and older ones became more refined as they worked to embrace where and how we engage, manage and otherwise share information. Still, even as the types of social media changed, the strategies used to engage fans, friends and followers stayed mostly the same. Here, we take a look at the social media channels that emerged and evolved throughout the year.

It's a month of retrospective insights, social business has proven perhaps the most evolutionary. Just look how far we've come in a year. Not only are there more social platforms to engage with, but we're so much closer to integrating social interactions into our business applications. Whether it's a social intranet or social CRM, we're socializing business one way or another.

 Google+ gets updates for both the Android and iOS mobile apps today as the social service adds a bunch of new tricks, with improved photo, connection and hangout features. 

Google+, the company’s venture in social networking, has launched public and private Communities that users can set up. Those users will have a lot of potential fellow communitizers, considering that Google+ has now announced it has more than half a billion users.

CEO and Founder of Expion, Peter Heffring believes that in the age of social media, brands need to not only engage their fans at a national level, but also make sure they have a local voice.

The Google+ social networking service, launched in June 2011, has reached a total of 400 million members, according to Google SVP of Engineering Vic Gundotra. That number includes 100 million monthly active users, counting the mobile app.

Google is launching an initial set of Google+ features designed specifically for businesses, and is moving into a full preview mode for Google Apps customers. Google says it developed the new social business features in response to the “dramatic” changes Web-based collaboration and social tools have made in how people connect.

Google is introducing a whole new meaning to the word Takeout. Yes, it's about portability, and it has something to do with the company's fledgling (by some standards) social network Google+. With the new Google+ circles transfer tool on Google Takeout, Google+ users can now transfer data across multiple accounts.

The very latest news out of Google is that Larry Page has lost his voice, probably from screaming "success!" repeatedly as the Nexus 7 tablet ships. Meanwhile, the rest of Google never sleeps, and its products never stop being tweaked and updated.