YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does

YouTube is already a big player in live video. YouTube is already a big player in gaming. As of today, Google is promoting the intersection of the two with YouTube Gaming, a dedicated site and separate app that's supposed to directly compete with Twitch's popular streaming platform. YouTube Gaming is a more obviously gaming-focused version of the standard interface; the announcement post billed it as a place where "you can search with confidence, knowing that typing 'call' will show you Call of Duty and not 'Call Me Maybe.'"

Google finally 'admits' Google Plus is a failure

Google has said that it is throttling back on its vision of having profiles at its social network serve as people's identities across its range of online offerings.