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Facebook Comments Appear in Google Searches: What It Means To You
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by NowPublic Staff | November 1, 2011 at 10:18 am
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Some Facebook Comments are Being Indexed by Google, Meaning They Will Show Up in Search Results. What Does This Mean For the Average Facebook User?
Odds are, you don't go a day without using Facebook and Google. Well, now it appears that your Facebook comments may end up in Google searches.
Gawker reports that some Facebook comments are being indexed by Google, which means that what you say on Facebook could end up in Google searches. Google appears to only be indexing Facebook-powered comments that appear on other sites.
For a technical breakdown of what's going on, here is a post from Digital Information.
As you can imagine, having Facebook comments show up in Google searches could cause problems, especially for those who are wont to post trolling, disparaging remarks.
There are some privacy concerns about Google's new approach to handling some Facebook comments.
Google's access to Facebook member information is limited when users apply the appropriate privacy settings to their Facebook Profiles. But comments left via Facebook Comments give Google a back-door opportunity to tear down Facebook's wall.
It's always good to remind yourself that writing something on Facebook is a form of broadcasting. Now some of those Facebook comments could reach a bigger audience.
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at 10:21 on November 1st, 2011
"Some privacy concerns" is to put it very mildly, as there is an ongoing issue in which, once your are logged out of Facebook, your cookies remain in your browser. This means that Facebook continues to track your web behavior even when you think it isn't doing so.