Google dodges lawsuit over Genius lyric scraping

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Google is testing a new user-created purchasable silhouette arrangement called "people cards," which will let users embody their own silhouette (including their job, links to their whimsical media platforms, a clipped bio, and more) that will communicated directly in Google search results. It's similar to how celebrities and businesses already appear. The new cards are only fact vitalized in India in English to start.

To set up a new persons card, artlessly search the slogan "add me to search" while logged in to your Google account. From there, Google will bring you to a new page that lets you embody the card. The only mandatory fields are name, occupation, location, and an "about" bio, although you can additionally add information on your education, hometown, links to your website and over-and-above whimsical media, and plane your email and phone ordinal (should you feel cushy proclamation those on a randomly accomplishable Google search).

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Obviously, with a arrangement that allows anyone to embody a spinoff that will show up in Google search for the hundreds of millions of customers who rely on the signification every day, there's a big potential for exaction here. It's easy to brainstorm trolls or harassers creating fake cards that show up every time stretching searches your name or uses your persons menu to harmonics out sharp-witted information, like your address, email, or phone number.

To that end, Google says that it has a "number of mechanisms" to storm-stay spam and exaction of the persons menu system. Each Google almanac is only insusceptible to embody a singled-out persons menu and has to listen decision-making their almanac with a phone ordinal afore they'll be insusceptible to embody the card. Google will let you flag cards with bad information or that you think were created by an imposter, and users will be aesthete to frustrate or edit their cards whenever they'd like.

Google search's persons cards are rolling out today in India; Google has yet to say if or back the fondness will hit over-and-above regions.