Google lego logo
Google+ has begun to introduce custom URLs to a “limited number of verified profiles and pages”, but promises platform-wide availability to all of its 170 million or so users in the future.
Custom or pretty URLs have been available on other social sites like Twitter and Facebook for some time now so it’s a natural step for Google to allow people and pages to customise their presence on its “social spine” even further.
The limited number of brands and celebrities already availing of the feature from today include Britney Spears (google.com/+britneyspears) and David Beckham (google.com/+davidbeckham), car manufacturer Toyota (google.com/+toyota) and games developer and publisher Ubisoft (google.com/+ubisoft).
“At first, we’re introducing custom URLs to a limited number of verified profiles and pages. But over time we plan to offer custom URLs to many more brands and individuals, so please stay tuned!”
Custom URLs are shorter, easier to remember and offer that little bit more by way of branding.
It’s also interesting to note that Google has dropped the ‘plus.’ subdomain from the custom URL entirely, reaffirming the fact that Google+ is the social layer behind all Google products rather than a social entity of its own.
Anthropic built a moat around its most powerful AI model yet. When tested, the defenses…
The 50-in-5 Awards are a made-up spectacle to celebrate globalist lapdogs corralling all of society…
I spent weeks debugging an agent that kept “forgetting” contexts mid-task. The agent had access…
Most people assume network problems during a disaster are about scale. Too many calls. Too…
Events engineering, a discipline that intersects technology, design, and human experience, has progressively become one…
AI in health has been growing for years, helping to spot disease biomarkers and better…
View Comments
@pdscott Hi Piers, you might enjoy this great slideshare from the Olympics Digital team http://t.co/Rf59Hbec
@primaryposition That's great reading (just think how things will be in 2017) - I demand a video #infographic of it though =D #london2012
@pdscott =D
@Spiderworking They know how to milk it, here we go again Google+ rush. All stop! it's not available to you yet. :-D http://t.co/fcSAJnRY
@2dgraphicdesign they do have a habit of dragging you back in!
@Spiderworking lol
I have realized that Google plus have huge impact on SEO
Google Plus in much faster the facebook
@ryan_murton took long enough!
@rownco I know man!