Facebook Public Profile Resources

By Manoj Jasra - Thu, 09/06/2007 - 10:27am.

Yesterday's news of the day was the buzz surrounding Facebook making profiles public to the major search engines. We did predict this enhancement by Facebook earlier this summer when Rumors of Google purchasing Facebook were flying around. Here's the official word from Facebook:

Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to
people who are not logged in to Facebook. We're expanding search so that people
can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search
listing contains less information than someone could find right after signing up
anyway, so we're not exposing any new information, and you have complete control
over your public search listing.

In a few weeks, we will allow these Public Search listings (depending on
users' individual privacy settings) to be found by search engines like Google,
MSN Live, Yahoo, etc. We think this will help more people connect and find value
from Facebook without exposing any actual profile information or data.

There were many, many thought surrounding the new from Facebook all across the web, of which the most thorough one may have been by SearchEngineLand's Danny Sullivan with his post titled: Facebook Opens Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic, While Google Grabs Facebook's News Feed Idea.

PC World: Facebook to Make Listings Public via Search Engines
Information Week: Facebook Exposes Users To Search Engines
Reuters: Facebook lets users choose to publicize themselves
ZDNet: How Facebook’s “public search listing” could empower users
Marketing Vox: Facebook to Expose User Profiles to Search Engines
Search Engine Watch: Facebook to Expose User Profiles to Search Engines
Giga Om: Facebook Open To Public Search
SEO Space: Facebook Profiles to Appear in Google, Yahoo and MSN Results
Times Online UK: Facebook opens profiles to all comers
San Francisco Chronicle: Changes afoot at Facebook

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Manoj Jasra has been in the search marketing industry since 2002 with Enquiro Search Solutions. His role as the Director of Technology at Enquiro involves him developing strategic relationships with technology vendors, overseeing web analytics and designing cutting edge solutions for clients. Manoj's background in software development and experience in search marketing/web analytics gives him the ability to provide strategic consultation throughout the entire online marketing process.

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