How to Get a Google Search Profile From Outside the US

Google launched Search profiles on 4 June 2026, in the US only. I live in Dubai. Mine is already live.

The reason this works is simple. The profile page for any entity already sits at a fixed Google URL, whether or not the feature has officially reached your country. If Google has an entity for you, even without a Knowledge Panel, you can open your profile today, no VPN required.

Here is the whole method. It takes about 2 minutes.

What a Google Search profile is

A Search profile is a page Google gives a creator or publisher to represent themselves across Search. An avatar, a short bio, a link to your site, your social accounts, and the work Google associates with your name. It is the closest thing to a verified profile that Google itself owns, rather than X or LinkedIn.

Here is mine, a live one you can open right now.

What Google announced

Google announced Search profiles on 4 June 2026. Anyone with a sizable following on at least one major social or video platform can claim one and customise it with a bio, a website, and their social links. You do not even need an existing Knowledge Panel to claim a profile, and claiming one can prompt Google to build a panel for you.

It is US only for now

The catch is one line in that announcement. Search profiles “will initially launch in the US.” Google names no other countries and gives no timeline. So if you sit outside the US, the official claim flow is shut to you for now.

You do not have to wait

Here is the part Google does not advertise. Every Search profile lives at a fixed URL built from the entity’s Knowledge Graph ID, the KGMID. Once Google has generated your profile, that URL opens from anywhere. Dubai, Lagos, Manila, it makes no difference.

Credit where it is due. I picked this up from Nathan Jeffery and Jes Scholz, who worked out how the profile URLs are put together.

What you need first

The requirement is simple. Google has to have an entity for you. A Knowledge Panel is the obvious sign of one, but you do not need a panel. Google now generates entities for plenty of people off their social presence alone, no website required.

Then there is the Google Search Profile URL generator I built, which turns that entity into your profile link.

Just search your name

Open the Google Search Profile URL generator and type your name or brand. It queries Google’s Knowledge Graph, lists the matching entities, and builds a profile link for each. Find yourself, click Open profile, and there it is. This is the path to use if you have no Knowledge Panel, because it surfaces the entity Google made for you whether or not a panel ever showed up.

If you already have your link or ID

If you do have a Knowledge Panel, there is a more direct route. Search yourself on Google, click Share, and paste the share.google/... or g.co/kgs/... link into the link tab of the tool. It reads the KGMID out and builds your profile URL. A raw KGMID works too, the /g/11nnv1wqs6 or /m/03j24kf kind, as does any Google search URL with a kgmid= parameter.

Either way the conversion is deterministic, not a hack. The tool wraps your KGMID in a small Protobuf message, Base64 encodes it, and appends it to Google’s base profile URL, so the same entity always produces the same link.

Who actually gets one

There are three ways to end up with a profile, and the gaps between them are the interesting bit.

The first is to claim one yourself, which needs a large following. Google has published the bar. You need to be at least 18, based in the US, and have 100,000 followers on YouTube, Instagram or X, or 300,000 on TikTok, with content that meets its guidelines. LinkedIn isn’t on the list, which fits how Google has always treated it in the Knowledge Graph.

The second is to already exist as an entity. If Google recognises you in its Knowledge Graph, a Knowledge Panel being the obvious sign, it may have auto-generated a profile for you. Its own docs even tell you to check whether it has “already generated one based on your online presence” before creating one.

The third is the strange one, and it might be a glitch. I’ve seen profiles for people who have no Knowledge Panel and are nowhere near the follower numbers, just a solid social presence and nothing else. Google still minted them an entity and a profile. Either there is a softer signal at work than the published bar, or the rollout is seeding profiles it shouldn’t. Either way, if those numbers feel out of reach, search your name anyway. Google may well have already made you one.

My hunch on why Google runs this in the background is entity disambiguation. Tying a real name to real social accounts gives it a clean anchor for who you are, which “John Smith” is which. The profile is the visible front end. The disambiguation is the part Google actually wants. I could be wrong about the motive, but the pattern is hard to miss.

Two honest caveats

A quick honesty check, so nobody emails me disappointed.

First, this opens a profile that Google has already generated. It does not conjure one out of nothing. If your entity is thin or brand new, the URL might not show a full profile yet.

Second, the full claim and customisation flow, the part where you edit your avatar and bio, is still inside the US rollout. What you get today is early access to the profile page itself. For most of us outside the US, seeing the profile and checking Google has the entity right is the useful part.

The global rollout will almost certainly follow, the way these US first launches usually do. Until then, if Google has an entity for you, there is no reason to wait to see yours.