is this new? just spotted it today.. if a facebook page appears in searches for a person, google lists in grey a couple of friends
haven't seen any mention of this when searchin blogoscoped |
Do you have any screenshots of this? I'm not seeing it. Also, could it be a Greasemonkey extension?
Edit: Actually, I'm seeing this now too... |
The most important question here is how this would ever help the searching experience...? It kinda feels unnecesarry and they should have rather added a profile pic for example. |
I've seen the same kind of snippet for LinkedIn rankings
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&q=site%3Awww.linkedin.com%2Fin&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g2g%3As1g2
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I agree with David, what good can it do? |
I'm pretty sure this has been around for quite a while ... Privacy -> Search -> Public Search Listing http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2963412130
(Yes, I am on facebook way too much) |
Canna, friends have been searchable from public profiles for ages, but I've never seen them listed in the Google search results above the snippet like they are in that image. That blog post you're linking to doesn't mention this either. Just to be clear, the story here is with Google, not Facebook. |
I don't understand what determinates if a page can have snippet or not. Maybe it's a special bot that has crawled those pages? |
it works with Google profiles too http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.google.com%2Fs2%2Fprofiles but I don't think it's new |
Tomhtml It's funny that the third result for your very broad search is a spam profile for FOREX trading (dozens of links to the same domain). |
It's been around before June 13, I remember searching my name on Google after getting my Facebook username and saw that. I thought someone here might have noticed it already so I didn't report. |
Yes, Google is showing profile in the past days as well. Facebook profile pages are visible to Google and thus it shows. |
Not all FB profiles are visible to Googlebot, absolutely. |