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Re: Google Me. No, Really!

maxineee — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:23:09 -0000

This was a great tip for me

Re: Google Me. No, Really!

kj subz — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:52:04 -0000

My google profile link doesn't appear at the bottom of a google search of me (kj subz) either .. when i investigate there is some half-baked info about verifying my email id and when i try to do that it disallows me saying only non-google id's can be verified .. what's the scoop here .. strange no one else other than you and me seem to be complaining

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Bruce C Ziebarth — Fri, 01 May 2009 16:04:12 -0000

I signed up for Google Profiles. I like the fact that you can add links to all your other social networking profiles. It allows you to make a "one stop shop" for your information. Thank you for the posting.

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Mikes — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:40:38 -0000

just updated my profile and searched for "me" LOL!

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Tom Freeman — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:39:24 -0000

Wow! This is clearly the first tentative steps in the direction of a Google social network. Smart move though and clearly will get a big take up as people try and have some level of control over the personal reputation management.

Re: Google Me. No, Really!

Erol — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:03:50 -0000

Hey,

Can't get this to work!
Is this service available when browsing to the U.S. Google?
I'm out of Google's first wave of innovation avalanche, i.e Europe, so I can't try this out, it seems? I can add myself but I can't find anybody through typical search.
The magical profile box below the search results won't appear, whenever I type in some of the example names provided in the introduction page.

What am I doing wrong?

Re: Google Me. No, Really!

Charlotte Wray — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:09:14 -0000

People search site http://www.yasni.com have been doing this for ages, and to a better standard. Just goes to show, slap a google logo on it and people will go mad, without even thinking about alternatives!

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Cat (UK) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:20:20 -0000

Just spent ages trying to get this to work then checked the original Google post to discover it's only for US searches. Doh!

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homepage — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:53:50 -0000

Searching people is becoming common and Google might be a good way to find people... this could steal some traffic from the Facebooks, LinkedIns, etc.

Re: Google Me. No, Really!

Chris — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:08:11 -0000

Great info - Thanks for the update.

Chris

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Dave — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:17:52 -0000

Just what I was thinking. This is great! It is about time.

http://www.TheCommentDepot.com

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kenhty — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:22:35 -0000

I've just created my profile. Check it out! http://www.google.com/profi...
Still thinking about the bio section.

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TMS — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:50:53 -0000

I would be more worried about the identity thieves who will scroll through your profile in order to determine your history and people you know so they can more easily impersonate you. Only give the info you know cannot be used against you by the devious..

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Stefan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:27:42 -0000

"This is going to be a welcome addition for lots of people, especially those who aren’t necessarily happy with what links Google has for them on the first page of results". I don't agree on this, as Google places the profiles at the bottom of the result page...

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ver — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:08:36 -0000

its great features for everybody

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Rahul Chowdhury — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:19:04 -0000

Another great surprise from a great company. Live it up Google!!!

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Jasper — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:56:45 -0000

Great feature of Google. Businesses could create a profile and create awareness.

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John So — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:41:54 -0000

Ha, I don't really need this service, because I got some really famous guy who shares the same name as me.

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Guest — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:54:31 -0000

Pretty cool...I also use Naymz (http://www.naymz.com)...but need to update that as well... What I like about Namyz is I can see where a person is from if they click the link ;)

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Mauricio E.T. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:50:15 -0000

Just created my own Google Profile. Pretty cool. I'm excited to see what this leads to.

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Rachel — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:52:03 -0000

That was a cool feature until I read the comments and logged out of my account and the profile links disappeared. I guess it's not too much longer to say "Google me - while you're signed into Google." :)

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Miguel Angel Alvarez — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:31:14 -0000

Too bad it only works when you are signed in to your gmail account.

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Jack — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:14:31 -0000

so, I just tried this out, and there seems to be a few bugs/issues.

1. when I'm logged out of my google profile, and search for my name, then my profile listing goes away. I can only see my google profile when I'm logged in and I search for myself.

2. I had a colleague search for me on his computer (while I was logged in). My profile did not display in the bottom result. What's the point of this if only I can see the listing when I'm already signed into my google profile?

Also, what's to keep businesses from setting up accounts for relevant and highly utilized search terms that aren't actually their businesses name?

Re: Google Me. No, Really!

Mary St George — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:34:49 -0000

When will this feature be live?

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Jack — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:04:29 -0000

this is smart. they needed people to create profiles so that their single sign-on service would have some juice against facebook connect... why you use google ID when you aren't really connecting to any sort of network (a la Facebook Connect)? real smart in my opinion.