[ars]

That's because google gives it to you that way.

Much more likely this is a typo in the ID number.

[arbus]

If it is a typo in the ID number, thats understandable. But the social tracking id seems to be wrong too and that also points to the authors id. Can't be wrong twice and have both mistakes point to the same person

[bagels]

It could be, but it's exceedingly unlikely to be.

[eropple]

If you're typing that number in by hand, my WAT flag is flying.

[tg3]

They copy-and-pasted from Google and then changed one of the characters in their ID? Possible, but Occam's Razor and all.

[rooted]

A 16 digit alphanumeric id? It's far more probable they just copied his code

[JeremyMorgan]

Yup, my guess is the ID is a variable in some templating system or CMS that MLB uses, and someone (for some reason) was typing it.

[Theodores]

Apparently it is just a hash collision.

Sergei knew about the potential for a problem with crc32 so they went with crcgoogol instead. Clearly the 1 in 10^42 eventuality happened, improbable as it seemed.