Guardian hides user profiles from google. An SEO trick?

If you look at your user profile at guardian.co.uk, it looks like this:

That all looks OK – even a nice URL to link back to my homepage. How very kind.

But if javascript is off …

Only if you look at the HTML, there’s not really a link there at all. Just some wierd javascript that goes off and gets the URL. But only, obviously, if javascript is turned on.

So what google sees is this:

Why? Some sort of SEO trick to avoid linking out to other sites, as per my previous post?Â

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