Google Giving Away 250,000 Google Profile Business Cards
May 1, 2009 at 4:25am ET by Matt McGee
Google has teamed up with iPrint.com to offer free Google Profile business cards to the first 10,000 people who claim them. Each person can get a set of 25 cards that shows the Google.com home page with his/her Google Profile URL underneath it in green.
If you're logged in to your Google account, you should see the offer available at the top of your profile. It can also be accessed here:
http://www.google.com/profiles/me/bizcards/
The offer is only available in the continental U.S., and Google says the cards should arrive within 10-12 days. You'll have to create an iPrint.com acco [...]
Filed in: Google: Accounts & Profiles, Top News
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results”
Apr 21, 2009 at 4:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results? Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn't find the person you wanted? Google's new "Profile Results" launching today aim to correct both problems.
Since the end of 2007, Google has allowed people to create Google Profile pages for use with certain Google services. For example, if you created content in Google Maps, your Google Profile let you share who you were with others using that service. The same profile also [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Accounts & Profiles, Google: OneBox, Plus Box & Direct Answers, Google: OpenSocial, Google: Search Customization, How To: SEO, Legal: Privacy, Search Engines: People Search, Top News
Google Unifying And Putting More Emphasis On “Profiles”
Dec 17, 2007 at 9:40am ET by Greg Sterling
Google Operating System discusses the integration of Google Profiles into most Google services and products and the unification of disparate profiles into a single master profile. Whether and how this might ultimately be integrated with Google's newly reinvigorated social network, Orkut, is unclear. Although they are much less extensive, Profiles may turn out to be to Orkut what Shopping became to Froogle -- a successor and repositioned product. As Google Operating System points out, the new Profiles are already in use in several areas on Google, such as Maps and Reader.
Many things are inte [...]
Filed in: Google: Accounts & Profiles, Google: OpenSocial
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