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Facebook's Funnel Into Google Renews Focus On Privacy Management
- by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, February 25, 2010
How Google streaming Facebook public status updates change advertising in search
Now, Google gives brands with fan pages a funnel to Facebook from the search engine.
Google on Wednesday began indexing Facebook Fan page status updates in real-time search results. The announcement, made through a tweet on Twitter, fulfills the …
Laurie Sullivan is a writer and editor for MediaPost. You can reach Laurie at lauriesullivan@gmail.com.
The Internet has never guaranteed any amount of privacy, so individuals and especially companies should have been monitoring their online presence from their first logon via AOL back in the day. However, today it is so much more important, especially with social updates becoming a norm in search engine results.
Even if you have your privacy settings up high, it's still important to only post things you'd be comfortable with the world seeing; you never know when Facebook is going to change their settings again and default you to public!