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News: Google Lets You Put Yourself Into Results For..Yourself
John Battelle's Searchblog —
One of the principal things nearly anyone does on Google.com is a vanity search: We ask the question: What do people see when they put my name into Google?
Today, Google is announcing, for the first time, that anyone can change what is seen. (The initial launch is US only).
This, to be clear, is a Very Big Deal.
Joe Kraus, one of the founders of Excite and founder of JotSpot, is now at Google, and this new feature is his baby. I spoke to him today when he sent me a note about the launch. I immediately called him back, because, as I said, ...
Google Me: Google Profiles Now in Search Results
bub.blicio.us —
... Although they’ve apparently been quietly around for a year or so, I only found out about Google profiles last week. Now Google has launched a “Google Me” campaign to get people to fill out their profiles. Profiles will now show up in search results, although I haven’t gotten that to work yet. ...
Google’s Willing to Exchange Profile Results for Your Soul Personal Details
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... . Just last week, it implemented a change that allows you to use a vanity URL and now we learn that Google will start showing said profiles in its search results. ...
Google Profiles Onebox
Google Blogoscoped —
... Now, Google in a blog post says these profiles pop up in US searches, but it also worked for me when trying a search from Germany using google.com. One thing I was indeed not able to reproduce here was Google’s special result when you search for [ ...
Google Profiles wird Teil der Google Suche
GoogleWatchBlog —
Google hat die Google Profiles heute Nacht in die Google Suche integriert und wird dadurch zur Personensuche.
Bei der Suche nach amerikanischen Namen erscheinen am Ende der Suchergebnisse, einige Google Profiles. Diese Ergebnisse sind benutzergenerierte Inhalte und zeigen nur die Infos, die der jeweilige in sein Profil eingetragen hat.
Wer nicht möchte, dass er gefunden wird, kann entweder sein Profil löschen, seinen Namen ändern oder die Einstellung aktivieren, dass man bei der Suche nach dem vollständigen Namen nicht aufgelistet ...
Google Profile - Create Yours Now
Blippitt —
... In fact, the Google Profile now poses a serious threat to LinkedIn.
It’s important to note that your Google Profile results will show up appear at the bottom of the results page, so anyone looking for info about you will still be influenced by the other search results that come before it. This is still a great way to exercise at least a little more control over what people can find out about you online.
From the official Google Profile anouncement:
To give you greater control over what people ...
Personalized Network Searching: Google after People Search
Beyond Search —
... The hounds of the Internet are chasing Google’s “Search for Me on Google”. I can’t add to that outpouring of insight about technology that is exciting today but dated by Google time standards. I can, however, direct your attention to US 7,523,096, “Methods and Systems for Personalized Network Searching.” You can download this patent from the ...
How To Verify My Google Profile
Search Engine Roundtable —
Google announced you can now create verified Google Profiles that potentially can show up in the Google web search results. Danny Sullivan has the ...
Have You Searched Yourself?
Google News, Inside. —
Google is offering a new feature for its search platform. The feature to have your profile highlighted is now part of Google search.
Head to http://www.google.com/profiles to edit your profile and get it ranked for your name.
I think there’s a huge opportunity for SEO to get high rankings and drive traffic to your profile, then in turn traffic to your site. But the question will be, “will people actually click on these profiles?” I think that’s going to be the bottom line question for it.
As comparison, I ...
Claim your identity with Google Profile pages
Posts from the Econsultancy blog —
... But thanks to the new and improved Google Profile pages, you have options. Originally launched in late 2007, Google Profile pages have been used with a number of Google services, like Google Maps and Google Reader. ...
Google Profile Search (aka How to Rank for Jennifer Lopez)
SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog —
... Last week, Google started showing Google profiles at the bottom of U.S. search results. This caused quite a stir among the search marketing industry and a flurry of blog posts have been written about it. As with any topic there are varying opinions on the profiles. Some feel that it is a great way to brand yourself, while others feel that Google is a bully trying to force us to hand over our personal information. ...
Managing your reputation through search results
Google Webmaster Central Blog —
... . When people search for your name, Google can display a link to your Google profile in our search results and people can click through to see whatever information you choose to publish in your profile. ...
