Google has now officially activated their business account services, and they have already gotten a good number of pages up and running as guinea pigs.

In their endless fight against Facebook, Google has released the next feature to bring them a little bit closer to the leader. Facebook currently has over 800 million active users and millions more pages for those users to like and track. Since Google+ launched a few months ago, they have acquired close to 50 million members, probably spurred on by the fact that everyone using Google was prompted to join the new network.

The G+ pages work basically the exact same way that Facebook pages do (if it ain’t broke…). They allow users to come and read news about a given organization, comment on the page, and +1 it if they so choose. Also just like Facebook, Google has done this to give businesses a personal connection to their customer base in a setting where they can be comfortable. It seems that with Google’s dominance over everything not involving social networking, it would be a fantastic idea for businesses to have these pages, as they could be integrated with other Google services. G+ pages will probably be given precedence over others in their search engine, which could eventually hurt Facebook in the long run.

Now, just to be clear, don’t go rushing over to Google+ to create an account for your business quite yet, as not everybody can make one. Google has a set number for right now, presumably to make sure everything goes as planned, and will open everything up later. For now, here is a nice screenshot of one of these pages:

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