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Jul182011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments

Get the Vanity URL for Google+

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Article first published as Get the Vanity URL for Google+ on Technorati. Are you also missing vanity URLs for user profiles with Google Plus? Well unlike Facebook and Twitter, Google+ doesn’t offer vanity URLs for user profiles. The reason Google+ doesn’t use vanity URLs is because those could lead to spammers figuring out the email addresses of millions of Google+ users (since by default your Gmail username is linked to your Google Profile for e.g. http://profiles.google.com//). Note: If you are still willing to use your Gmail username as vanity URL click here Even in Facebook it is the same, I mean your profile username is your email ID with @facebook.com following your username. However, it seems that after being caught with Google Buzz privacy nightmare. Google is tak...
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Jul172011 by Anchit PandeyNo Comments
Get Vanity URL for Google Profile

Get Vanity URL for Google Profile

Technology
It seems to be a little known fact, that old Google Profile users who had activated to use their Gmail username in their profile address already has sort of a vanity URL for their Google Plus profile.  For example, the URL showing up for my profile in my browser is https://plus.google.com/101396322906779742823 and that’s the one I’ve referenced in other places. However, turns out that my Google Profile address – the one I’ve had for years – does work, too. So the shorter and speaking pointer to me on Google+ is: http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey or http://www.google.com/profiles/anchitpandey. By default, it links to your posts tab. You can, however, attach whatever works on the longer version and it’ll work here, too. So http://profiles.google.com/anchitpandey/about will link...
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