Ford Motor Company has established a corporate presence on Google+, evidently securing a place in a test of how Google's social-networking site will extend beyond individuals.
Ford is one of the few companies to acquire a corporate page on Google's fledgling social network Google+. Screenshot: Stephen Shankland/CNET News
The Ford Google+ site had 1,222 followers on Saturday morning and featured posts such as a photo caption contest, a question about what people would like to see out of Ford on Google+, and promotion of a live chat with Ford's director of marketing communications — with a Google+ video-chat 'hangout' afterward.
The corporate presence is a rarity on Google+. Google has been deleting other corporate accounts, saying Google+ is currently only optimised for individuals. It plans to release the corporate version of Google+ later this year, but in the meantime is testing its ideas for how it should work.
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Ford wins a rare corporate foothold on Google+ on CNET News.
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