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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

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.