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Google Profiles Indexable In Search Engines

Search engines can now crawl through to list about 50,000 Google profiles in search results. These Google profiles, a sort of public business card created from basic information about you in Blogger, orkut, Google Groups, Google Co-op and other Web pages, are embedded as iframes in pages that showcase user-generated content such as personalized maps, shared bookmarks.

Loren Baker calls Google Profiles the building block to the foundation of Google's social map in the interactive Internet world, weaving basic user information the user chooses to share within Google results; whether that info be LinkedIn style business information or family and friend style photo-sharing.

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