It is true that Google Profiles serve as the main building blocks in acting as the foundation for making Google as the main social map in the whole web-world!
"A Google Profile is simply how you represent yourself on Google products — it lets you tell others a bit more about who you are and what you're all about. You control what goes into your Google Profile, sharing as much (or as little) as you'd like." – Google
The news is that Google Profiles are now being indexed by search engines!
It is because of the fact that Google has added a new line into their robots.txt file and has lifted the nonindex style command for these files.
Garett Rogers writes :
Just about a half hour ago, Google added a new line into their robots.txt file which makes all those profiles (or at least 50,000 of them) crawlable by search engines. The new entry tells search engines to use “http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml†as a sitemap. The sitemap looks something like this:
http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/sitemap-000.txt
2008-10-15
http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/sitemap-001.txt
2008-10-15
According to Garett, Google would soon launch a “People Onebox†at one point. Google has earlier performed this task for local and books as well.
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Thats pretty crazy, Google is always changing their code around, i guess its a good thing to be able to search for a profile right on googles homepage.
Google blogoscoped have also got a write up about the profile indexing. Apparently it might so that google profile pages can compete with facebook and linked in for people searches