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I found it very odd that Google+ profiles don't have a clean URL. Something like g.co/+nirlevy would be perfect.

by quizbiz 15y ago

franze 15y ago
why the second slash? http://g.co/+nirlevy http://g.co/+nirlevy one unnecessary character saved EDIT: the second slash g.co/+/nirlevy version was in the orignal comment (which was obviously updated without notice)
- quizbiz 15y ago
  Bah meant to update you and thank you but I was distracted and went back to work. I am sorry.
blauwbilgorgel 15y ago
I thought no vanity URL's had something to do with their privacy policy: > If you choose not to have search engines index your profile, your profile itself won't appear in Google search results. However: * Your profile will still remain visible to anyone with your profile URL. From: http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1355574&answer=1151728&p=search_visibility&rd=1 http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&#... If we all had vanity URL's that spelled out our name, our private profiles could be accessed by just guessing the URL. Now your private profile is only visible to those that know your specific URL and Googleplus ID. I also think vanity URL's, name changes, name squatting and celebrity verification is too much manual work for Google's liking.
- ern 15y ago
  They used to have vanity URLs as a drop-down option in the Profile (I got it when I created my profile to try out Buzz last year). Even though I deleted the profile, I still had the option to choose it when I re-created the profile. It seems to have been removed in the last week or 2.
- uxp 15y ago
  It also took Facebook quite a while to get vanity URLs out of the door. If the Google+ team decided that they did not want to release it to the public until it had feature parity with Facebook, then we never would have seen G+. We should all give them time to tweak the site and figure out what features people actually want and which ones are actually important.
- marquis 15y ago
  With Facebook, you can use a pseudonym for your vanity URL and hide all content to be non-visible to all except those you grant access to. This works well, I feel, and hope g+ does the same.
jonknee 15y ago
It's so spammers don't use it to get a bunch of @gmail addresses to spam (with personal info to boot!).
- troels 15y ago
  And how would they discover the gplus vanity urls? From the email addresses?
  - jonknee 15y ago
    Browsing/crawling around G+? There's not @facebook email, so it doesn't matter if everyone can find your vanity URL. It would be quite easy to get started, http://findpeopleonplus.com/ http://findpeopleonplus.com/ already has a million places to begin.
    - FaceKicker 15y ago
      > There's not @facebook email Yes there is.
gchucky 15y ago
It's not quite the same, but there is http://gplus.to/ http://gplus.to/ - though you have to add yourself to it.
saool 15y ago
if you knew the URL... you wouldn't need search ;)

I found it very odd that Google+ profiles don't have a clean URL. Something like g.co/+nirlevy would be perfect.

by quizbiz 15y ago

I found it very odd that Google+ profiles don't have a clean URL. Something like g.co/+nirlevy would be perfect.

why the second slash? http://g.co/+nirlevy http://g.co/+nirlevy one unnecessary character saved EDIT: the second slash g.co/+/nirlevy version was in the orignal comment (which was obviously updated without notice)

quizbiz 15y ago
Bah meant to update you and thank you but I was distracted and went back to work. I am sorry.

blauwbilgorgel 15y ago

I thought no vanity URL's had something to do with their privacy policy: > If you choose not to have search engines index your profile, your profile itself won't appear in Google search results. However: * Your profile will still remain visible to anyone with your profile URL. From: http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=guide.cs&guide=1355574&answer=1151728&p=search_visibility&rd=1 http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&#... If we all had vanity URL's that spelled out our name, our private profiles could be accessed by just guessing the URL. Now your private profile is only visible to those that know your specific URL and Googleplus ID. I also think vanity URL's, name changes, name squatting and celebrity verification is too much manual work for Google's liking.

ern 15y ago
They used to have vanity URLs as a drop-down option in the Profile (I got it when I created my profile to try out Buzz last year). Even though I deleted the profile, I still had the option to choose it when I re-created the profile. It seems to have been removed in the last week or 2.
uxp 15y ago
It also took Facebook quite a while to get vanity URLs out of the door. If the Google+ team decided that they did not want to release it to the public until it had feature parity with Facebook, then we never would have seen G+. We should all give them time to tweak the site and figure out what features people actually want and which ones are actually important.
marquis 15y ago
With Facebook, you can use a pseudonym for your vanity URL and hide all content to be non-visible to all except those you grant access to. This works well, I feel, and hope g+ does the same.

jonknee 15y ago

It's so spammers don't use it to get a bunch of @gmail addresses to spam (with personal info to boot!).

troels 15y ago
And how would they discover the gplus vanity urls? From the email addresses?
- jonknee 15y ago
  Browsing/crawling around G+? There's not @facebook email, so it doesn't matter if everyone can find your vanity URL. It would be quite easy to get started, http://findpeopleonplus.com/ http://findpeopleonplus.com/ already has a million places to begin.
  - FaceKicker 15y ago
    > There's not @facebook email Yes there is.

gchucky 15y ago

It's not quite the same, but there is http://gplus.to/ http://gplus.to/ - though you have to add yourself to it.

saool 15y ago

if you knew the URL... you wouldn't need search ;)