Google Plus shutdown implies crucial Google minutes are being lost to the ether

Google Plus is being taken apart, and a few of the very first pages to go are those of crucial executives.

On Tuesday the profiles of existing CEO Sundar Pichai, previous CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were all erased from the platform, reports Business Insider. 

Some Google Plus posts, consisting of a post by Page describing Google’s handle the National Security Agency’s questionable 2013 PRISM program, were archived at the time in Google’s blog site. But the elimination of these executive pages implies numerous other posts substantial to the business’s history have actually been lost to the web ether. 

Business Insider keeps in mind that such posts consist of statements of essential brand-new hires in addition to more individual stories, like one from Page on his history with singing chord problems and how this impacted his life — and work.

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It comes just days after several Mark Zuckerberg posts from over a decade ago were discovered, also by Business Insider, to have been deleted from Facebook’s platform. This, a Facebook spokesperson said, was due to “technical errors.”

Unlike Zuckerberg’s enigmatic posts, though, the purging of Google+ has been a long time coming. Last year, the search giant said it would shut down Google Plus after it found (and fixed) a security flaw that may have exposed the personal data of 500,000 users. Tuesday was just the beginning of the torn pages to come.

People have been mourning the loss of Google Plus all day. Kind of.