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"Google is reportedly drawing up a &amp;quot;celebrity acquisition plan&amp;quot; to help publicise its new Google+ social network to become well-known by prominent actors, musicians and other public figures, CNN has revealed.\r\n\r\nCNN learned of Google's plans for its three-week-old social network via a number of emails from Google, which highlights a new system to verify the identity of a public figure when they sign up for the service.\r\n\r\nThe system would operate\u00A0similarly\u00A0to the way Twitter authenticates celebrities on its service, with Google reported to be pondering the inclusion of a button that would be present on\u00A0legitimate\u00A0profiles. This would match Twitter's &amp;quot;Verified&amp;quot; icon, which Twitter began using to verify profiles but started to relax use of the feature as of late.\r\n\r\nBrett Schulte, a Hollywood consultant and organizer of social-media gatherings called Tweet House, believes Google will ask public figures to fax over copies of their driving license to the company.\r\n\r\nGoogle however, declined to comment, simply stating:\r\n&amp;quot;We aren't yet sharing any details on future plans around Google+. We plan to add a lot of features and functionality to Google+ over time.&amp;quot;\r\nGoogle+ has already seen a number of tech-savvy celebrities join the social network, with many gaining a presence on the service via their public relations teams. The search giant has already amassed 10 million users of its service and will hope a large number of high-profile endorsements will result in a more registrations and increased interaction on Google+."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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