{"id":1166,"date":"2009-04-25T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-04-25T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T14:59:31","slug":"can-googles-new-people-profile-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/can-googles-new-people-profile-help-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Google&#8217;s New People Profile Help You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Google started &#8220;profiles&#8221; as a way for people to provide their personal information to Google that will be displayed on search results pages for their names. Google had this to say about the new feature &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/search-for-me-on-google.html\" target=\"_blank\">a way to give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think that I&#8217;m more comfortable with people finding and reading what I write about me rather than what others do, even though it may be good. So I&#8217;m trying this out. At the very least I&#8217;m getting some links to my site and profiles on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Lillicotch\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/4\/525\/a61\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a> which may help business.<\/p>\n<p>Google may be trying to do something else here, like starting it&#8217;s own social network instead of buying Twitter, but at least I feel like I&#8217;m more in control even if I&#8217;m probably not. Try it out yourself, then Google yourself and see how it works.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\/JimLillicotch\" target=\"_blank\">See My Profile On Google Profiles<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/profiles\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Own Profile<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Google started &#8220;profiles&#8221; as a way for people to provide their personal information to Google that will be displayed on search results pages for their names. Google had this to say about the new feature &#8220;a way to give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[23],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}