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Set up your Google Profile Today

Posted by Karen Rubin on Wed, Apr 22, 2009 @ 02:31 PM
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Yesterday Google took a step towards making their profiles more helpful by launching Google Me. If you go and type "Me" into Google, you will get the option to set up your profile (you can also go to here). Once set up, your profile will show at the bottom of the search results. 

Who knows what this means for now, but I am going to guess that it's a great move for personal branding. They allow you to include your Gmail name as the URL, so my Google Profile URL is, http://www.google.com/profiles/Karen.Roy. I was a bit bummed that I couldn't change this to Karen Rubin at first, but I should have known Google would figure it out. When you search for Karen Rubin, my Karen.Roy Google Profile does show up. Smart folks over there at Google. 

Over at Mashable there is some concern about the amount of information this allows Google to know about you. I have to admit, I gave up that battle a while ago and fully embrace Google knowing all there is about me. When they take over the world, perhaps they will be nicer to people who have supported their domination.

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I regularly watch Hubspot.tv and in the last episode, there was a concern about making google profiles public since the email id would be visible. There is another option where you can disallow showing your email id so instead of google.com/profiles/emailid it would be google.com/profiles/number. It is there under Edit Profile the last option. 
 
And I like the show, especially the energy.

posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 8:45 AM by Ramprasad

Hi Ramprasad, Thanks so much for your comment. You are absolutely right, you can use a numeric URL instead of one that gives away your email address. I have changed mine to this as well, since it doesn't affect your profile showing up for you name, it definitely seems more secure.  
 
Glad you like the show! 

posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:05 AM by Karen

I also thought about something else, the links to our picasa that we might give out anywhere for instance on our profile page essentially has the email id. I think the same applies to google pages and maybe other google services 
 
I did a google search for sites:picasaweb.google.com and shows more than 1 M links. Any ways to prevent this ?

posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 9:27 AM by Ramprasad Rajendran

You are right that Picassa also uses your gmail ID in the URL. In the Picassa settings, you have the option to change the URL to another username, but it has to be a Google account. If you were worried about your primary email account, I would recommend changing your Picassa URL to a secondary account that doesn't matter as much to you.

posted @ Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:02 AM by Karen

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