Google hastens Google+ Corporate Account Efforts

Google is accelerating a test of corporate accounts on Google after "thousands upon thousands" of businesses applied for a place in the program, a Google executive said. So far, Ford appears to be the only brand that already has gotten an account.

The company plans next week to choose who'll get into the test and announce their names soon afterward, Christian Oestlien, a Google product manager, said in a Google post last night.

But if you want your company, brand name, school, or celebrity pet to have a place on Google sooner rather than later, you'd better act fast. Google is closing down its applications form on Friday, he said. Read more here.

Brands can apply to be a part of this test until July 15, 2011.  Google says it will close the applications process on Friday (July 15th) at 6pm PST.Apply here, if you can get through. Demand seems to be crashing the server.

Google hastens Google corporate account launch