Google profiles will give us much easier access to talent in order to create teams from the web.
As use of Google profiles, and the uptake of Google products (like Search Appliance) in the enterprise, increase Google could become the glue that binds enterprise social networks with the web.
Google has found a new way to threaten our privacy, says Thomas Claburn over at Information Week, pointing to a post on the Gmail blog about the new Google Profiles.
Last week, I encouraged others to fill out their Facebook-esque profiles with Google as a form of reputation control.
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Google actually created the profiles in part to give people more privacy, if you define privacy as control of your reputation.
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Additionally, new privacy settings will allow users to determine and adjust the link between their Google account and social media profiles.
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The Reuters news agency has speculated that Facebook intended to unify user data profiles in a way similar to Google's controversial policy changes which took place earlier this year.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google , the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
Cooper worries that DoubleClick's massive amount of private data about users' online behavior could be linked to Google's reams of search data to create detailed profiles of individuals.
What hiring manager is going to make a decision based on an e-mail attachment when they can browse your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, read the gory details in your blog and hit Google to find out more about you -- good or bad -- all in one sitting?
But Facebook's initiative generally attracted scant attention from users mostly content to maintain their profiles on the site, while separately keeping their email services from providers such as Google Inc.
Along with the search function, which encompasses Web, news image, video and map content, like Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), the site hosts job listings and professional profiles.
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