All Google private profiles will be deleted.
Google announced a strange decision to delete all private profiles of its users after July 31, 2011. “Private” are those profiles that are not indexed by the search engine and are not active for display, that is, only the owners themselves can see them.
To determine the “publicity” or “privacy” of your profile, you need to click the “Edit Profile” button and look in the “Search Visibility” column.
It is difficult to explain this decision. Perhaps in a similar way, Google wants to encourage users to open their profiles for viewing. Or, perhaps, as an absolutely absurd assumption, the company is insured against the leakage of private information - in order not to risk the leakage of “closed” data, they prefer to delete it altogether? Maybe there are some absurd assumptions.
Despite the genius of Google in the development of various web services, the company's actions in the field of social networks can be called, to put it mildly, clumsy, and toughly speaking - idiotic. Whatever the reasons for deleting private profiles, and even taking into account their meager amount, such actions undermine the trust of users who quite logically consider their private information to be untouchable.
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Imagine that Facebook or another social network will announce, for example, a massive deletion of photo albums that are closed for viewing by everyone except the owner?
As a partial justification for Google, you can only say that the presence of a “hidden” profile from the user's point of view really makes little sense, because no one forces you to enter your personal data and almost all Google services can be used without a profile. Deleting a profile will not delete the account .
The presence of a profile (at least hidden) is definitely necessary, it seems, only for Google Buzz.
To determine the “publicity” or “privacy” of your profile, you need to click the “Edit Profile” button and look in the “Search Visibility” column.
It is difficult to explain this decision. Perhaps in a similar way, Google wants to encourage users to open their profiles for viewing. Or, perhaps, as an absolutely absurd assumption, the company is insured against the leakage of private information - in order not to risk the leakage of “closed” data, they prefer to delete it altogether? Maybe there are some absurd assumptions.
Despite the genius of Google in the development of various web services, the company's actions in the field of social networks can be called, to put it mildly, clumsy, and toughly speaking - idiotic. Whatever the reasons for deleting private profiles, and even taking into account their meager amount, such actions undermine the trust of users who quite logically consider their private information to be untouchable.
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Imagine that Facebook or another social network will announce, for example, a massive deletion of photo albums that are closed for viewing by everyone except the owner?
As a partial justification for Google, you can only say that the presence of a “hidden” profile from the user's point of view really makes little sense, because no one forces you to enter your personal data and almost all Google services can be used without a profile. Deleting a profile will not delete the account .
The presence of a profile (at least hidden) is definitely necessary, it seems, only for Google Buzz.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/115417/
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