Google Adds Facebook’s Fan Page Updates to Real-Time Search
Google said it would be adding public updates from Facebook Pages, last December, and now the integration is live within its real-time search updates, the company says, although we’re not seeing anything yet. To be clear, as of now, only information provided by Page owners will appear. So shared links, status updates, multimedia, etc. but not users’ comments on Pages.
It’s not clear what volume of new material is going from Facebook to Google as a result, although Facebook’s self-reported numbers say that 3 million Pages are currently “active.” Out of that number, half are local businesses, 20 million people become Page fans each day, and more than 5.3 billion fans have been created (this means the total number of fans across all Pages, counting each fan separately for each Page). Given the size of Pages, we can assume Google is parsing billions of updates from the feature.
Google has been making a big push to include more information from other sites in its real-time results, with Facebook rivals Twitter and MySpace already appearing, along with many others. However, as Search Engine Land has confirmed, Facebook investor Microsoft is currently getting more for its Bing search engine: publicly available personal status updates from Facebook users. And yet, those don’t appear to be live yet.
February 24th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
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February 25th, 2010 at 7:02 am
[...] More details about Google’s real-time search and Fan pages updates can be read at Inside Facebook [...]
February 26th, 2010 at 1:18 am
This is pretty much cool. You are giving others an opportunity to be the best and letting them see the big world of social networking in the arena of facebook.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
A fan page is a necessity in today’s business and marketing climate. There are so many benefits, the fact the google now includes fan page updates with twitter is huge. This truly allows an update to go viral.
March 1st, 2010 at 4:47 am
Yeah and it’s really great to search with Real Time Search and it is very useful.
March 4th, 2010 at 11:56 am
[...] For most people, I think the best way to get thoughts, shares and ideas noticed is to put them directly in front of the largest number of people in the places where they spend the most time. Today those places are the feeds at Facebook, Twitter and now Google Buzz — The Big Three. I should note that private posts in a Facebook feed are invisible to Google and don’t have as much value as public posts. I use a Facebook Page, which Pages are now indexed by Google in real-time. [...]
May 12th, 2010 at 2:34 am
[...] your FAQs to the Notes area of your Facebook Fan page. Remember, Facebook pages are indexed by Google, so you’re now getting double duty from those juicy keywords in your FAQ [...]
June 1st, 2010 at 8:40 am
I am agree with the article writer that Google easly Index Facebook Fan Pages so it is very important part of our user and also a business.
Keep It Up!
November 5th, 2010 at 9:44 am
Does Google index Facebook pages?…
Yes. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/02/24/google-adds-facebooks-fan-page-updates-to-real-time-search/…
January 5th, 2011 at 10:11 am
Very interesting article. I am trying to find out whether it would be a good idea to submit your Facebook page to Google or not. Search engines will eventually find you, but will such submissions help with SEO efforts?
February 11th, 2011 at 12:32 pm
[...] has attracted the attention of marketers who have unleashed a torrent of Facebook fan pages, 3 million at last count, and Twitter accounts to harness consumers eager to embrace brands that entertain and otherwise [...]
March 1st, 2011 at 3:19 am
[...] no longer hide under the bridge and can shine through their users’ Facebook Wall. Besides, Google started indexing Facebook even though we are not quite certain how much real-time data are being [...]