Google user profiles: coming soon!

So, in the near future, your Google account will be represented on all Google services in a unified way - using your own profile. Immediately make a reservation, do not confuse your account settings and profile. Google Profile is a business card for a Google account, which will give you the opportunity to tell about yourself as much as you want.

Before, you could create your profiles in Blogger, orkut, Google Groups, Google Co-op, Gmail and enter completely different data about yourself. In addition, in Gmail, Google Talk and orkut, an avatar is attached to the profile, which makes it rather confusing to identify your friends and acquaintances.
New Google profiles are already available in Shared Stuff, Google Maps, Google Reader and will soon be added to other web services.
Profiles are publicly available and contain basic information about you: nickname (real name and surname are shown only to your contacts), occupation, location, list of links, photo and short description. The profile is embedded on the pages where the user-generated content is shown (personal maps, shared bookmarks, etc.).
A side effect of the public availability of your profile is that people can find it through search engines, for example, by entering your nickname in the search bar (in case you entered your full name in it). In this case, it is quite possible that the results of the issue will contain the pages to which your Google profile is attached. Perhaps google will even create a profile directory and start suggesting friends depending on your location or hobbies.

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