Google wants to index all the existing public profiles of Google users, so it created an index of sitemaps and placed the address at google.com/robots.txt. Since the Sitemap protocol has been adopted by all major search engines, creating a sitemap is the easiest way to inform search engines about a large number of web pages from your site that don't have backlinks.
The sitemaps include about 150,000 Google profiles and this seems to be the number of people who took the time to create a profile in Google Maps, Google Reader and the other services that integrated the unified profiles. Since Google didn't promote this feature, the number of people that create a profile will increase once it becomes more visible.
As Jérôme Flipo noticed, Gmail started to link to the profiles pages of your contacts, probably only for Google Talk friends.
To create or edit a profile, visit this page and enter as much or as little as you want. "A Google profile is simply how you present yourself on Google products to other Google users. With a Google profile, you can easily share your web content on one central location. You can include, for example, links to your blog, online photos, and other profiles such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and more," explains Google.
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""Use multiple Google products? Soon your profile will link up with these as well.""
ReplyDeleteA nice feature would also be linking other google account (both native-google and google-apps accounts)...
For what it's worth, when I crawled this sitemap recently, there were 132,174 profiles.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't understand, can you explain it a bit more ?
ReplyDeleteNice work I was wondering when you guys were going to BRING IT :)
ReplyDeleteIf it makes it easier for people to find me and my blog I'm thanks
I'm also getting into making my own open social api lots of cool things going on :)
Thanks
PS I know people don't appreciate stuff but I DO:)
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ReplyDeleteThis is cool aspect to link to the people whom you try to find/ get back from the past.(Schools/ colleges etc).
Thanks
Google sneaking into Social Networking!!?? Soon you'll be linking contacts, and then more applications... hmmm..
ReplyDeletei dont get it
ReplyDeleteGoogle sneaking into Social Networking!!?? Soon you'll be linking contacts, and then more applications
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