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Google Vanity Profiles Buggy on the iPhone
May 06, 2009
I wouldn't categorize this under DEFCON 5, but there's a bug with Google Profiles in the iPhone version of Safari.
When you do a vanity search and you've filled out your Google Profile sufficiently, it might show up at the bottom of the first SERP. My profile, for example, does show up correctly on normal browsers.
In an iPhone vanity search, however, something weird happens. Where the profile link would be, there is instead a link to a page called "prose%200", as seen here:
%20 is the escape code for a space, so in reality, the page is called "prose 0". When you click the link in the iPhone, you land here:
I imagine the "pro" in "prose" stands for "profile." As for the "se," I'm not sure. "Search engine," perhaps, although that seems too easy, as well as redundant.
Conclusion: If you have thousands or millions of people searching their iPhones for your Google profile (like I don't), they're not finding you.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at May 6, 2009 08:39 AM
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