Google quietly announced Google Profiles, which provide a way for users of various Google products like Google Maps and Google Reader to offer information about themselves to other users.
A Google Profile will initially include basic points, like a user's name, photo and location, and can include other information, like a person's profession. Anyone can see a user's profile, the site noted, and if a user includes his full name in a profile, it may be returned in Google search results for that name.
"You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you'd like," Google noted on a Web page with a brief description about Google Profiles. "Use multiple Google products? Soon your Google Profile will link up with these as well."
The new Google Profiles are already available in Google Maps and Google Reader and will be added to other Web applications.
This move, combined with last week's announcement that Google Reader has been linked to the Google Talk chat feature in Gmail to help users better share content with friends, shows that Google is moving closer to building a social network that will truly take Google to the next level.
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