Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, we've begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles. We've also added links so it's easy to search for the same name on MySpace, Facebook, Classmates and LinkedIn.
Clearly this is a big incentive to sign up for a Google profile, and adds a bit of competition for all the ego-surfers out there ;)
Most Facebookers I've spoken with don't even know what Privacy options are or how to set them. one thing is providing the functionality and another is providing a simple explanation of what it does and why it might be important.
Isn't that an issue that should be taken up with Facebook, not with the search engines?
For all the tinfoil hat wearers - it is Opt in, just like every other social network. So don't opt in if you are worried.
You know what I see? Google trying to get their fingers into the Social Media market. And just think, what if they cut juice off from all the popular profiles and left it on for Google profiles? Nah, they surely wouldn't do that.
my sentiments exactly; they 1st optimized their profiles to make them more seo friendly shortly after twitter starting populating profile title tags with their user's names on the left:
[webmasterworld.com...]
now to guarantee your google optimized tag pops up, they publish a link to it on the bottom; if you choose to include your google username in the profile, you may soon find your google profile on the top and bottom of the search engine results. sounds like duplicate content to me. but i guess he who holds the gold makes the rules.
Looking forward for more updates on this.
The more information you provide, the easier it will be for friends to find you.
Logically I think I don't understand this sentence. Because by definition a friend is someone whom I already should know and if we are friends they already know "how to find me." Those who try to "find me" usually do it without my knowledge or consent and then I wouldn't call them my friends... Or not?
Because by definition a friend is someone whom I already should know and if we are friends they already know "how to find me."
Not if they're old friends, or casual friends. Plus, "friend" has a different meaning in the social-networking world in the physical world: as does "fan," for that matter.
From a reputation management standpoint, this is an opportunity to put content YOU control in a prominent position in Google SERPs. Probably better than letting what others say about you be more visible.
true; although you could also do it by optimizing a title tag with your name on a few better trusted url's like your most active social profiles; but i guess this is more effortless; the question is how many people are going to scroll all the way down the page when they see a court case on you @ the top on position 1?
Someone has been a bad boy...
Yes, I happen to exercise what used to be
my right to this concept called "free speech"
by outwardly criticizing those in charge.
From a reputation management standpoint, this is an opportunity to put content YOU control in a prominent position in Google SERPs. Probably better than letting what others say about you be more visible.
That's how I look at it. Why let someone else register my tradename? I have the dotcom, the twitter, the facebook, the myspace, etc etc why let the google version go unregistered?
For malicious hackers I say yes to that, for an ex-wife or girlfriend tracking your every move, I say a big NO!
[edited by: tedster at 1:39 am (utc) on May 3, 2009]
[edit reason] spelling fix [/edit]
