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Search for "me" on Google (Google Profiles now in search results)
- tsally 17y agoThe photo feed doesn't work with DropBox albums. :( Other impressions: Needs gravatar support. I like that it pulls the favicon from your links.
- knightinblue 17y agoA word of caution for those who make their profiles public. Most people simply append their gmail handle for these profiles. For example, JohnSmith@gmail.com would use the profile www.google.com/profiles/johnsmith. It becomes incredibly easy for spammers to pull these handles from public searches, add an '@gmail.com' and spam them.
- blasdel 17y agoIt's pretty ridiculously easy to use that spamming technique now -- just scrape usernames from public fora, and try them on the big free email hosts. If you add a really naive email hashing scheme to your profile pages, the spammer doesn't even have to send the email to see if it's valid!: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~cce/microid/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/~cce/microid/
- EastSmith 17y agoOoops, too late. Got rushed by a blog article somewhere: "Hurry, Hurry, get your google profile handle now, or else ... someone else will take it!" So I did. Nice lesson for all marketers - scaring users works :)
- ubernostrum 17y agoSpammers already have your email address.
- marcusbooster 17y agoSo what does this mean? Are we now in another race to gobble up good profile names for better Google results?