Facebook opening for Search

I read a bunch of reports, Mashable has a good article on it, that Facebook will be opening it’s users profiles to search sites such as Google and Yahoo. It’s confirmed when you log in now by the box at the top of your home page, not your profile page, telling you to update your privacy terms. You can block this if you want or at least limit what searches can find. I have no problem with my Facebook profile being indexed, my theory is if you don’t want the information out there don’t post it on the internet, it’s never 100% safe! The problem I have is Facebook has a ton of Google Juice! You can bet in no time if someone searches for you your Facebook profile is going to come up first. It’s great to help people to find you, but I still prefer my own site to be the first result! Whats your opinion?

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By Bill on September 6, 2007 - Filed under: Other

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What’s the point of Facebook opening up to google and other search engines? You know.. I think they are doing it because they want to put up google adds and make more money. Facebook is in the top 10 or 15 sites on Alexa. So you can imagine how much money they can earn out of it. So they want to open it so badly, but they want to make sure that people can agree and it won’t seem obvious that they are partnered up with google and are just money hounds… But WE know! :P
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What’s the point of Facebook opening up to google and other search engines? You know.. I think they are doing it because they want to put up google adds and make more money. Facebook is in the top 10 or 15 sites on Alexa. So you can imagine how much money they can earn out of it. So they want to open it so badly, but they want to make sure that people can agree and it won’t seem obvious that they are partnered up with google and are just money hounds… But WE know! :P

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