Wikidata:Property proposal/Google Search profile handle
Google Search profile handle
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | handle identifying a public Search profile on Google Search |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Google Search Profile ID|Google Search profile identifier |
| Issued by | Google (Q95) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | entities with a public Google Search profile |
| Allowed values | Search profile handle without the leading @ |
| Example 1 | NBC (Q13974)→nbc |
| Example 2 | The New York Times (Q9684)→nytimes |
| Example 3 | ABC News (Q287171)→abcnews |
| Example 4 | The Wall Street Journal (Q164746)→wsj |
| Example 5 | Miami Herald (Q1706651)→miamiherald |
| Example 6 | Tucker Carlson (Q743162)→tuckercarlson |
| Source | Google Search Central documentation for Search profiles |
| External links | Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [uk] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt]. |
| Planned use | To identify the public Google Search profile associated with a Wikidata entity. Google Search profiles have public URLs using the pattern https://profile.google.com/@handle. This property would allow Wikidata to link directly to those profiles using the handle as an external identifier, analogous to dedicated identifiers for profiles on other major web platforms. |
| Number of IDs in source | Unknown; Google Search profiles are a newly introduced service and are currently available in the United States. |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| Implied notability | Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320) |
| Formatter URL | https://profile.google.com/@$1 |
| URL match pattern | ^https?:\/\/profile\.google\.com\/@([^\/?#]+)\/?$ |
| See also | website account on (P553), website username or ID (P554) |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation
[edit]Google has introduced public Search profiles for people and organizations. Each profile has a public URL using a handle in the form https://profile.google.com/@handle. Examples include NBC (https://profile.google.com/@nbc), The New York Times (https://profile.google.com/@nytimes), ABC News (https://profile.google.com/@abcnews), The Wall Street Journal (https://profile.google.com/@wsj), the Miami Herald (https://profile.google.com/@miamiherald), and Tucker Carlson (@tuckercarlson).
A dedicated external-identifier property would allow these profiles to be represented consistently and would provide a formatter URL directly to the public profile. While website account on (P553) with website username or ID (P554) can represent accounts generically, Google Search profiles now have a defined public handle and URL scheme, similar to other services for which Wikidata maintains dedicated external-identifier properties.
Google documents Search profiles and their public URLs here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/search-profiles
Leglamp123 (talk) 18:25, 22 September 2026 (UTC)
- I moved this from generic to authority control as it seems a better fit. Also, Facebook username, Instagram username, X username, YouTube channel ID, LinkedIn IDs, Reddit username, Mastodon address, etc. are grouped as properties related to social-networking services, and it seems that this Google Search Profile handle fits within the existing social networking service organizational convention as Google's product acts to organize and index a person/organization's social profiles although it isn't literally itself a social network. Leglamp123 (talk) 15:54, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
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Support -- JhowieNitnek (talk) 18:38, 22 September 2026 (UTC)- Support --Printstream (talk) 15:59, 23 September 2026 (UTC)
- Support for once an immutable google handle. Vicarage (talk) 13:40, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
- Support -wd-Ryan (Talk/Edits) 15:39, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
- @Leglamp123, JhowieNitnek, Printstream, Vicarage, Wd-Ryan:
Created as Google Search profile handle (P14932). Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 06:56, 3 October 2026 (UTC)