Custom URLs are finally coming to Google+

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Rosa Golijan

If you write down your Google+ URL for someone right now, it might look something like this:?http://plus.google.com/109299348960895456083/.?

Who the heck would bother memorizing that??

Thankfully such long number strings will soon be a worry of the past?? because?Google is gradually?starting to roll out?"vanity URLs" to users.

Saurabh Sharma?? a Google product manager?? explains in a Google+ post?that?the?new URLS (which look something like http://google.com/+britneyspears or http://google.com/+toyota) are?being offered to a "limited number of verified profiles and pages" first. Don't start stomping your feet if you don't fit that criteria though, because Sharma adds that "over time [Google plans] to offer custom URLs to many more brands and individuals."

No word as to how Google plans to let people call dibs on their preferred URLs just yet. For now, I'm assuming that snagging http://google.com/+rosa will involve either battling every Rosa in the world or baking cupcakes for every member of the Google+ team.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Sharma's?announcement?isn't actually the first time we're seeing custom URLs on Google+ profiles. Cartoonist?Matthew "The Oatmeal" Inman?? whose recent Internet-based?charity fundraiser you may remember ? has been the proud owner of this not-so-safe-for work URL?for a couple of months, thanks to the Google+ team's sense of humor.

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Source: http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/custom-urls-are-finally-coming-google-941359

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