Before, profiles were effectively invisible to search engines, but last week, the company changed that setting, as ZDNet blogger and iQmetrix programmer Garett Rogers noticed. And Google clearly wants people's profiles to be noticed.
"The more information you provide, the easier it will be for friends to find you," Google says on the page, where people can enter profile information such as the places where they grew up, the schools they attended, links to their publicly available Web pages, their interests, and helpfully for Google's research department, things they can't find on Google.
For now, at least, the profiles page lacks the socially interconnected features of Web sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Google's own Orkut. But with profiles now giving a new anchor to Google users' online presence, it's not a stretch to imagine Google headed this direction.
A widget here, a social graph there, maybe a feed to broadcast and spotlight people's online activities, and pretty soon, Google might have another shot at social networking with popularity broader than the Orkut's niche.
Indeed, that's what Yahoo is trying to do with its new socially engaged profiles pages.
Google acknowledged the search visibility move for profiles but declined to shed much light on its plans for profiles.
"Recently, we added the ability to search all public profiles created by users. If a user has checked the 'Show full name publicly so people can find you' box on the profile edit page, their profile is a publicly accessible Web page and is indexed in search results," the company said in a statement.
The company framed the move in the context of its ever-present top priority of improving search. How does Google Profiles do that, exactly? The company offered two reasons to me: First, it lets people control their own presentation on the Web better--something that could well appeal to those who aren't happy that a vanity search on their name leads people to something embarrassing. Second, it could make it easier for people to find others on the Internet.
Google's Profiles page lets people change settings for all their Google services.
How socially aware will the site become?
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Well, 90% sex page is not a big problem. The problem is someday Google will be another Lehman Brothers and forced to sell its information to another party and you have to pay $0.99 for each email received. "Moi cuoc choi deu co luc tan" isn't it ;).
Trả lờiXóaHeheh, just an example. A big problem or not, it depends on who you are. For G, to create a good search engine, it's easy. To be a big boss of the world, somehow not that quick.
Trả lờiXóaAdmittedly, I am used to many Google products. I cannot remember the last time I used MS Office 2007. Google Docs is more convenient. Gmail is much faster and simpler than Outlook. Google Reader is modest but fit my use.
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