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by Arun Radhakrishnan on October 20, 2008
Google is making the Profiles of the users of its various services searchable and also a standard across many of its services. So far there were different profiles being created for Orkut, Maps etc. With a centralized profile, Google may be gearing up to provide a set of services based around easing the usage of their various services.
An excerpt from Google Operating System
The new Google profiles are already available in Shared Stuff, Google Maps, Google Reader and will be added to other web applications. For example, in Google Maps you'll find the link to your profile at the top of the page.
Profiles are public and contain basic information about yourself: a nickname (the real name is displayed only to your contacts), your occupation, your location, a list of links, a photo and a short description. They are embedded as iframes in pages that showcase user-generated content (personalized maps, shared bookmarks).
Yahoo had announced earlier that part of its new strategy was to provide a social network encompassing all its services. It seems that in many ways Google is also looking to do a similar thing with its services.
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Makes me wonder where they'll go next!