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Google provides the addresses of 35,513,445 Google Profiles. (May crash Chrome.) (gstatic.com)
11 points by FSecurePal on May 19, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


This isn't a news. Google profiles can be indexed by search engines since 2008. See the google robots.txt file:

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


In a related story facebook gained 35,513,445 new users today as a result of a massive email campaign.


Challenge accepted.


Why?


This is just a list of all the _public_ google profiles, to make them easier to index.


Because?




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