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Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by true_religion »

seldo wrote: post #40
balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

It's a strange irony that Google, the driving force behind the invention of SEO, often fail to bother with it themselves, even on extremely high-profile products. As noted, Google Profiles have meaningless, unguessable URLs: https://plus.google.com/112349855959838705650 Items in the Chrome app store are similarly opaque: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aidgmjkfmbhldhnhko... (As are all Chrome extensions:) h…

It's not really surprising that Google doesn't care about SEO---after all they are the search engine.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by WALoeIII »

tednaleid wrote: post #20

Annoyed that people with a Google Apps account can't join google+, when trying to join the error message is: "Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature." "Google Profiles is not available for your organization." This is apparently something that Google has been promising for a while now, I also recently went through the pain of migrating my domain over to supposedly link up to Google Profile, but it's sti…

Just create a nickname on your "real" account, then sign up for a google account with it.

I use google@mydomain.com

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by kogir »

balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

It prevents both information leakage (number of users/posts/etc), and enumeration. It could also contain routing information about where your data is actually stored behind the scenes, avoiding a directory lookup.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by jannes »

balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

That's your gmail account ID. It hasn't changed since you registered for gmail.

I remember that the old Google profiles (before Google+ and before the Profiles relaunch) had an option to choose between a private and a public profile URL. The public version of the URL had your gmail username in it. The private one didnt, it had the your account ID in it. Apparrently they turned off the option for public profile URLs since Google+.

So apparently these URLs are there for privacy reasons. Not everyone who knows your email address should be able to find your profile.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by traskjd »

dilap wrote: post #34
ditojim wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

looks like google is working on this. i think it makes sense to roll this out to consumers first and harden it for businesses. https://plus.google.com/100940716892313727285/posts/Cy9ggc6y...

I dunno, it seems crazy that Google constantly treats their paying customers like second-class citizens.

To be fair - they are. Who provides Google the most money? The unwashed masses seeing adverts and clicking on them. Not people paying for an email service :-)

Obviously this is a simplification - it's the adword customers they care about. Until Google Apps customers are contributing billion+ they probably don't really care that much.

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Post by arihant »

So if I added a Gmail adress in my circle already and the person is not on G+ yet, shouldn't Google send invites to those people first? The people who are in circles but not on G+, that is.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by dorkwagon »

jannes wrote: post #54
balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

That's your gmail account ID. It hasn't changed since you registered for gmail. I remember that the old Google profiles (before Google+ and before the Profiles relaunch) had an option to choose between a private and a public profile URL. The public version of the URL had your gmail username in it. The private one didnt, it had the your account ID in it. Apparrently they turned off the option for public profile URLs s…

The option of having your username in the URL is still there, but it looks like the setting needs to be toggled again for the new profile scheme. Check near the bottom on https://profiles.google.com/me/about/edit/d .

Edit: Strangely, the option shows up only sometimes when I click the edit button.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by pilif »

toyg wrote: post #43
balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

It's been used by googlers for more than a year already, so that's probably why the number is so high.

even a company the size of google doesn't have 112349855959838705650 employees

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by akulbe »

dilap wrote: post #34
ditojim wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

looks like google is working on this. i think it makes sense to roll this out to consumers first and harden it for businesses. https://plus.google.com/100940716892313727285/posts/Cy9ggc6y...

I dunno, it seems crazy that Google constantly treats their paying customers like second-class citizens.

You're not the customer. You're the product. :)
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