Very interesting find – add a few lines of bash scripting, and this would also be…

Very interesting find – add a few lines of bash scripting, and this would also be the quick answer to the question of how many profiles Google+ has.

Reshared post from +Brian White

Forget all this follower count business. How about Profile Zero?

I was curious about Profile discoverability and returned to look at Google's robots.txt file.

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

There at the bottom are pointers to some sitemaps. The one we're interested in is 'http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/profiles-sitemap.xml'

First sitemap entry is

http://www.gstatic.com/s2/sitemaps/sitemap-000.txt

First profiles listed at that URL are

https://profiles.google.com/117135902571938793602
https://profiles.google.com/112006952710949332145
https://profiles.google.com/105382462492606983441
https://profiles.google.com/109299750146769054739
https://profiles.google.com/104555562341640123846
https://profiles.google.com/112956845518767535694
https://profiles.google.com/110485358693367275499
https://profiles.google.com/116858396349465488289
https://profiles.google.com/103728425362850548172
https://profiles.google.com/104359529435326563415...

This may be transient but as of now I give you Profile Zero: 117135902571938793602. Congrats Raj!

For more on sitemaps, check out http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php