Google+ URLs

The social network Google+ has the ability to get personal URLs for your profile page. Earlier, on August 13, this opportunity was announced for the pages of brands and famous personalities. Now any user can personalize the URL, but at the same time you cannot select the address itself, Google+ offers the generated address of the google.com/+ Name Surname (Cyrillic is fully supported).

About the appearance of new features, users are notified by e-mail. To receive a personal URL, you must accept the terms of use and confirm your mobile number (if it was not linked to an account before). The terms of use, including, include the item “Now the personal URLs are free, but we can start charging for them.”, Which suggests that Google+ should look for new ways to monetize.

Similar functionality has been on VKontakte since 2010, and on Facebook since 2009. At the same time, at various times, these social networks imposed different restrictions (on the number of subscribers, popularity of pages, and so on) on the possibility of changing, but the address itself could always be chosen by the users themselves.