Google yourself : Create your Google profile

Posted by Ask Chief Online

May 6, 2009

Many time we use to Google for our own name or someone else’s to find out what others would find. It’s was interesting Google search for many of us. But as we know result was not always what we expect.

To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, Google started “Create your Google Profile“.

As Google says,

Your profile can include online photos, links to your blog or other online profiles, and ways for people to contact you — and you can restrict contact information like your address and phone number to only the people and groups you choose.

When creating a profile, you have the 2 options for your Google Profile URL:

To use your Gmail username as a your profile URL (profiles.google.com/yourusername) But this can make your Google email address publicly discoverable.This unique name will also be used in other links to your content on Google.
you use a 24 digit number instead.Turn on the ‘Send a message’ feature, and anyone with a Google Account can send you a message through your profile, without having your email address revealed to them.