Facebook Indexing: Will Facebook Index All Your Info on Google?

Thats not true! IF you read facbook's privicy terms it says Indexing just means if someone searches your name your facebook will come up into google---but they will only be able to see the information you have set to public. If you unceck the indexing box they will not be able to see your facebook in google search results.  

Has any body tried to do a search on the content to see if this was true?

If it is true, has anyone tried to search google or bing on their own profile to see if it returns anything?

Type your name as it appears on your profile into google search engine. All it does is link you to facebook. You still have to create a facebook account to go any further. If you don't want anyone to find you on facebook you probably shouldn't have created an account on a social network.

As a few have already noted, you need to read the privacy statement in Facebook and learn things for yourself from the source before believing the rumors.  "...as of today, Facebook will automatically index all your info on Google..."; read the note in your privacy settings, it's pretty clear: "Public Search Results- Allow search engines to access your publicly available info and any information visible to Everyone" -- That 'Everyone' and 'publicly available info' are referring to content on your pages that you specify as visible to "Everyone" or as "Public" -- and this isn't new, this has been active since 2007. And Facebook even had a "pop-up" when you logged in explaining the recent change that eliminated 'Networks' and the new indexing.... If you didn't change your settings or aren't clear on what they are, go to Settings > Privacy... > , etc. and make the necessary adjustments. Let's not spread incorrect rumors. "Indexing" does not allow Google or any other search engine access to your Facebook content UNLESS you mark that specific content as "visible to Everyone" or as "Public".And feel free to search for my name in Facebook / Google.  If you search Google and specify "Mike Sanger Facebook" you will see the same basic info that anyone can see by going to Facebook homepage (not logged into an account) and searching the EXACT same name.

This isn't true.  The indexing is for the member's name only.  Facebook has even posted a statement on their website claiming this is a rumor.

This is actually not true.  The indexing is for the name only.  If you login to Facebook and go under privacy settings you'll see the statement by Facebook.

I set my setting over again this morning and then called my niece in another state and asked her to google me (she was the only one available at the time).  My name showed up linking me to Face book, however when she clicked on the link it said file not found. SN sites are for your socializing, networking with your choice of people. Not for people to just want to see what you are into such as potential employers, schools or any other organization you do not want to know anything about you without your PRIOR consent.

Well I have unchecked the allow box and then tested it on Google, lo and behold there I am, absolutely everything :(

My profile was set to "only friends" and it still indexed the private (limited version), as well as all profile pics associated with that limited version. So if I run a google image search under my name, I get a ton of older profile pics that I don't necessarily want viewed. Users may be okay with the default profile pic showing up in the index, but may not realize that all older ones are also going to show up. It's just kind of creepy to see a ton of your pictures showing up in image search when you think your profile is limited to friends...I guess technically FB is not doing anything wrong, but the average user does not intend for this to happen.

I'm not indexed and not listed on Google, I have always had high security setting. A mob wars app fan and every so often would get a message with threats so took myself of the directory and that all stopped, now with the latest updates theres no way of hiding and already getting messages through,ggrrrrr. Hate having a uncommen name.

1.  I changed my index settings immediately.  Guess what?  My page still showed up on the first page of a google search.  2.  every post continued to show up on google.  3.  I re-checked my privacy settings.  "indexing" still unchecked.  4.  I deactivated my account.  I have NOTHING on FB that is remotely naughty or mean; but I do have an aversion to letting strangers listen in on conversations with friends.

Facebook settings are working.  A Google search showed nothing for me related in anyway to Facebook.  PERFECT!

The only way to test is to be logged into facebook as someone NOT on your friends list.  This will show you what is actually shown.  If you google yourself and you are still logged into facebook, you'll go right to your page and see everything.

its the same as myspace.  if you have it set to private, and people can still search you they can find you on FB or myspace.  if its private they will only see the name and picture.  if you dont to be found on the internet either delete all your accounts or live in the 1980s!

Facebook has posted the following message on its site: "There have been misleading rumors recently about Facebook indexing all your information on Google. This is not true. [etc]Where did Facebook post this? I can't find it. Please provide a link.

Changing the setting to private now won't delete informaiton that's already been shared to google previously.  This is not a new thing - you were asked when you created your account if you wanted to allow indexing, and if you said that you did (or ignored that section and left it as the default "allow"), then a lot (if not all) of the stuff since then will be public.

I didn't know the details of "indexing" when my profile, all the information, went "public"this is a "friends' connection site, not a google search.  I don't want the world to know about me and my "thoughts' where I go, what i do, etc. etc.  I was doing that to connect with my friends...! not the world!!! and frankly, thats not okay.

I've found my profile picture on Google, linking to Facebook. I've changed my settings to not allow for Indexing, and yet I find the picture on Google. I've deleted my picture, but it's STILL THERE on Google. This is disgusting. Facebook has promised us that our privacy will always be protected, this is absolutely appalling. I hoped that by deactivating my account, my picture will finally disappear, but NO IT'S STILL THERE.

I have had my privacy settings strict from day 1 and they are still protected. When FB first changed to the new settings, I went in and made sure everything was the way I wanted it. I made some things even stricter by adding new groups to organize friends and then allowing different groups access to different things. Now people I don't know very well can see even less than before.For those removing their pictures, etc. on FB and then going in and immediately searching for yourself and still finding results - no duh! Learn about how Google works. Google doesn't know when you've changed something until their bots crawl the site again and it rarely happens the second you make a change. The results that you got prior to the change will be the same after the change and even longer if there's a cached version of the page available. It takes time for updates, search engines don't work like IMing or chat in "real time." I learned this the hard way. I have been on the Web for a while but had no idea how any of these things worked until I tried to backtrack and get things removed. Searching for me turns up anywhere from about 5500 to 7500 search results (which may not seem like much, but I'm not famous or even well-known, just a regular person) on any given day and for a long time crappy companies used my name for stuffing to draw more traffic to sites unrelated to me or anything I do or have ever done. Google has since removed most of those, though a few still turn up sometimes and are reported.Facts are that any information you ever had in any public area that was crawled by a bot of Google's or anyone else's will be available for a long long time and little can be done about it. Deep searches turn up pages I had information on back in 2001 and 2002 but that's life. Live and learn.

There are parts of your Facebook account that Facebook has decided is always public information, such as your name.  There is no setting in Facebook to completely disallow your entire profile from public search engines such as Google.  The "do not allow indexing" option in Facebook only disallows Google from accessing ALL of the information on your facebook profile.

I also have the same problem.  I have unchecked the "Allow" box and for the last week, everyone who searches me on google can see every post I've made.  What I am doing wrong?

i have deleted my facebook account recently and can no longer log on although when i google my name my facebook page is still cached, how can i get rid of this?

Hi guys ! Actually I wanted to ask a question if anyone knows the answer. I have a account on Facebook I even disabled the Allow search option, but when I search using "myname" in google.com it gives my Facebook page even if you have selected the not to be visible in fb incase someone searches you. However I noticed another thing if you're logged in with some fb account and then you search on google, they show you exactly what is there , for example, your wall posting , your friends list, obviously if you have selected to display it. I have even deactivated my account on facebook but when I search myself on google, it shows me the page probably its picking up from the google/facebook index. I would like to know how can i permanently get rid of this?