Gentlemen... release the hounds...

[TeenAngel]

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ? If you?re finding it tough to stay off of Facebook, you may soon find it even harder to keep your words off of Google.

The Internet?s most popular ? and powerful ? search engine will soon expand its search index to include user comments on Facebook as part of Google?s traditional search results.

While private users will still be protected, any comments made on Facebook forms on other websites or public pages within the social networking site will be indexed and open for all the world to see.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/11/03/google-to-index-facebook-comments-as-search-results/

 

[Winchester]

*evil grin* PR 10 no follow links for everyone! But I imagine Google will change their settings on how they index that data, and also not make any page but the main.com have a PR like that

 

[larrydetuvi]

 

[RightInTwo]

This is the natural progression of google though. As the internet becomes more social, it only makes sense to continually integrate it into the search results.

 

[flibbertigibbet]

*evil grin* PR 10 no follow links for everyone! But I imagine Google will change their settings on how they index that data, and also not make any page but the main.com have a PR like that

SCORE! Regardless of whether or not the links work or are nofollow once FB allows the comments to be indexed, that means that you have THAT much more exposure to your website if you market it correctly. More exposure to your website obviously= more $$$. This is an awesome idea, in my opinion, however I imagine it will detract from a lot of other websites in the search engines. This might not fly very well, but forces webmasters who don't update regularly to actually do their job! lol FB is updated all the time, and with the new algorithim change that was released just over the last few days, this gives FB the advantage over people who don't update their sites frequently. I sure as hell plan on riding that wave until it dies!

 

[christoss1959]

Aren't facebook links redirected?