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Show HN: 114,444 Google+ profiles indexed and organized. What do you think?

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http://www.findpeopleonplus.com - So far we've indexed 114,444 Google+ profiles. We've added faceted navigation and search functionality so far.

Any feedback, thoughts would be awesome.

Thanks,

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Not overly impressed with the way you've mangled my about info in comparison to the original page:

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com/profiles/1059936479729639341...

Vs:

https://plus.google.com/105993647972963934118/about

EDIT: Also, you've specified that I have 0 followers and am following nobody. That is untrue. I just elected to not share that information.

Good catch. We'll add this note to the list of improvments.

I love the idea and the implementation, I've been looking for something like this. If you could filter by language it would be a lot more useful. Is that possible?

Hey there - great suggestion. We'll be adding a batch of features Mondayish...

It's cool. I'd recommend adding something to the page clearly disclosing that this is a not affiliated with Google.

Great point. It's there at the bottom, but we'll make it more visable..

How are you classifying employment? Do you just use a predefined list of occupations and search the users "Occupation" field for items in that list?

Clickable:

http://www.findpeopleonplus.com

Nice Hack!

Are you crawling them? if so, what package are you using to do it?

Yes, crawling. Home brew. Stuff out there is either too complex, or too simple.

To be fair, we like to build on our own - probably not a good thing sometimes..

What language at least? Just curious, I do crawling myself and I'm always fascinated at the design decisions others choose.

CURL with PHP mostly on this project.. How about yourself?

Tell us about your crawler :)

that's cool! what do you use for your database?

Thx! We're using a little bit of everything! From MySQL, to hashes to our own home brew inverted index code.

We're upping the index numbers and adding a ton of cool things on Monday.

is there a link in which it takes u to the page where u create an account on google+ NOT google profile

What does the rank indicate?

Ah... good question.. Rank is based on followers. We were naive at thinking we'd index all G+ profiles so we added rank in. But, it's only a relative rank in relation to our data set. We do have Mark Zuckerberg and his rank is still tops in on index. We'll probably remove it or make it more clear.

can anyone invite me?

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