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Google Profiles is a website from Google Inc. may publish a public profile for the user to their Google account.

History

The result is Google Profiles on 22 April 2009 initially as a way for U.S. Gmail users to define their own profile, which will be found and displayed instead of Google. The basic idea was that users should be given the opportunity to design their own picture on the internet deliberately by Google can set a desired page.

In competition with Facebook and Twitter, the Google group tried to raise profile in the end of 2010 the number of users of Google by the use of the popular Picasa Web Albums was coupled thereto supposed to mess possible also a Google profiles. Meanwhile, moderate procedures. Picasa Web Albums can also be used without Google profiles as use so far.

On the basic concept of Google Profiles of designing your own public website, without having to operate the layout overhead of a traditional home page, the Google Group remains true to himself. Thus, this concept stands out clearer, the former option is no longer offered in new registrations since 17 March 2011, a "private profiles " to create. Newcomers to Google profiles start since getting directly with a public profile, an option can be set even if this site is indexed by the search engines such as Google.

Older users of Google Profiles that have been used privately their profile with the option have until 30 July 2011 Time to decide whether they want to change the profile to a public profile. Without setting change all profiles to be deleted with the option of private as of 1 July 2011, to obtain a uniform stand.

Some new Google services such as Google Buzz, Google 1 and Google a use is only possible with a public Google profile. In the wake of Google Google learns profiles are considerably enhanced with new functions and settings ( see next chapter).

Functions

The current functionality of Google Profiles is to configure pretty straightforward and easy, but it reveals itself to the typical users do not directly because the login page contains very little text and all the essential Leisungsbeschreibungen are outsourced to the help pages. There you will also find descriptions that let the buzz or Picasa tab and hide.

The scope of the visibility information from Google Profiles is dependent on whether the combined Google account without or with Google :

• With Google without the options of Google profiles are very strict: either publicly or omit. Differentiation in such a profile picture for the private circle of friends and a profile picture for the public there is not. In these cases, Google suggests to purchase a second Google account.
• Once the account with Google is combined there is next to either public or off still leave the third option only for members of his circle. A fourth option in visibility for certain circles not exist. For this fourth case, Google recommends zuzulegen a second account, but which is faster and more convenient jointly managed using the new Google bar. For the extended functions there is a separate Google profile Help page.

By default, allows Google Profiles page no conclusion on the Google account or Gmail address. For contact a contact form is optional hidden or shown.

The most important settings can also be centrally located in the Google Dashboard control.