{"id":8016,"date":"2009-04-22T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T10:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=8016"},"modified":"2009-05-01T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T02:11:02","slug":"go-ahead-google-me-and-see-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/8016\/go-ahead-google-me-and-see-what-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Go ahead, Google me and see what happens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really.\u00a0 Google “me” in your search bar or Google home page and see what happens.<\/p>\n

I was going to post about this yesterday and I’m glad I didn’t, because as of today, searchers who enter only the word “me” in the search box will be given an opportunity to set up or edit their Google Profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The personal profiles are not new.\u00a0 I did share some of my thoughts on this in Unchained in Seattle<\/a>.\u00a0 They’ve been around for a while now, it just seems that every time I take a look at them they add more features.\u00a0 First with a curious name verification process, then just last week with custom URLs<\/a>.\u00a0 They now support a pretty good amount of info on someone depending on your settings.\u00a0 Numerous links to sites, an ‘about me’, contacts, and a Flickr or Picassa feed for photos.<\/p>\n

None of this might be relevant except for the fact that Googling you is what people do.\u00a0\u00a0 Even my wife (against my personal preference) told someone to just look me up on Google the other day.\u00a0 That person found me in a heart beat.<\/p>\n

Profiles are already showing up at the bottom of page 1 search results and for those with common names there G will sport 4 profiles per page.\u00a0 I suppose the more you share on you profile the better your results.\u00a0\u00a0 So far, there’s only one of “me<\/a>“.
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While the big G says they are not having a run at Facebook’s social network action,\u00a0 google profiles still would be a good place to stake your claim.\u00a0 Especially if you like using any of their other services, such as Maps or anywhere else your profile will be linked to…<\/p>\n

\"brad\"<\/p>\n

Now if all that’s for nothing, then consider this.\u00a0 I reviewed my first message via my profile that simply read “Loved looking through your material. When I decide to move back to SF, I’ll give you a call.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Create your profile<\/a><\/p>\n

Update<\/em>:\u00a0 For promotion, Google is giving away 10,000 sets of 25 business cards to go with your new profile page<\/em>.\u00a0 Get em’ while they last. <\/a><\/p>\n

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Really.\u00a0 Google “me” in your search bar or Google home page and see what happens. I was going to post about this yesterday and I’m glad I didn’t, because as of today, searchers who enter only the word “me” in the search box will be given an opportunity to set up or edit their Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-general","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16536,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16536\/what-is-position-zero-on-google-all-sales-fundamentally-start-as-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":8016,"position":0},"title":"What is Position Zero on Google? 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