It’s no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else’s. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren’t always what you want people to see — whether it’s someone else with your name, or the finishing time from that 5K you ran back in 2002. Google want s to make that better and give you more of a voice.

To give you greater control over what people find when they search for your name, Google has begun to show Google profile results at the bottom of U.S. name-query search pages. These results offer abbreviated information from user-created Google profiles and a link to the full profiles. Google has also added links so it’s easy to search for the same name on MySpace, Facebook, Classmates and LinkedIn.

Source : GoogleBlog. Addl read : GoogleWatch.

With this, Google is giving users yet another compelling reason to get a Google account, and possibley earn itself an even bigger portion of the search pie!

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