{"id":588,"date":"2010-02-15T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/new\/?p=588"},"modified":"2014-10-26T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T19:30:24","slug":"googles-creepy-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Google’s Creepy Profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google Profile<\/p><\/div>\n

Google unveiled a bold new product last week; one of critical and compelling import to anyone who believes that their online reputation is important.\u00a0 I’m not talking about Google Buzz<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m talking about Google Profiles<\/a>.\u00a0 This isn’t a new service — Google introduced the profile pages a few years ago.\u00a0 But the release of Google Buzz has illuminated how important they are in Google’s plans, and how important they can be for us.\u00a0 And if this profile is now a major component in my personal branding strategy, I demand better tools to manage it than Google has provided.<\/p>\n

About a year ago, Google pointed out that, if you have a populated Google Profile, they will include it below the search results when people google your name<\/a>. So, for someone like me — who does want to be easily located on the web, but has a reasonably common name, this seemed like a good deal, and I filled out my profile.\u00a0 As a result, I’m prominently placed in the profile links when you search for my name, even though I’m about the fifth best known “Peter Campbell” on the web.<\/p>\n

A Google Profile page contains four important pieces:<\/p>\n