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Facebook search: What’s the big deal?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

There’s a large brouhaha (or perhaps it’s a kerfuffle) brewing in the blogosphere over the fact that Facebook has opened up its network to search bots from Google and others, something that was blocked by default in the past. This has caused a furore over the loss of pr ... Continue reading »

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  • a few people will surely be embarassed by something someone stumbles upon thru search engines. Big deal is right.

    It's smart for Facebook because they'll probably be able to leverage their member's names for 1 or 2 visitors / month per user from search engines.
  • Concerns are way overblown. I think it will actually fuel faster growth in Facebook as people run across listings in Google, but can’t contact the person without signing up for an account. If Facebook is growing by 1.2 million people a week now, it will be 1.7 million a week by October 15.

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