There might be as many as 132,000+** individual profiles on Gstatic right now, but that’s just based on a rough calculation, and Dan Goodwin at iCrossing says many more profiles would fit. Dan suspects that it may be possible that “Google is looking to compete with Facebook and possibly Linkedin for searches on individuals names, locations and employment”. (Note that Google has the data stored already without indexing it, of course, though crawling from a public source perhaps offers different possibilities of inclusion for them... and other search engines out there.)
*Non-nofollowed links, that is.
**Edit: Adjusted the number just now as I did a more precise counting.
[Thanks iCrossing!]
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