In December 2008, Google created a centralized profile system that will provide personalized information to all the Google products. These Google Profiles are minimalist things compared to LinkedIn and Facebook. However, they are accessible to search engines for indexing and may appear in search results. This may be Google’s first step into the social network arena as the Google Profiles launch came on the heels the Google Open Social product launch.
These profiles may be searched at the Google Profile search site. I was experimenting with this and found an enormous number of trashy profiles. One can search by name, but the fun starts when one searches by any rude or vulgar term that comes to mind. Of course, one could perform useful searches using company names or names of real people.
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