Saturday, September 8, 2007

Facebook Opens Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic, While Google Grabs Facebook's News Feed Idea

Sep. 5, 2007 at 9:56am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Facebook Opens Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic, While Google Grabs Facebook's News Feed Idea

Google is getting a bit more like Facebook by enabling a Facebook-style news feed within its Orkut social networking site, while the king of the walled gardens Facebook acknowledges in actions (rather than words) that it really can't go it alone without search engines like Google, as it prepares to let crawlers into its public user profiles. Actually, Facebook is telling its users that existing profiles already accessible to search engines will be exposed even more. Below, more on the moves, with lots of screenshots and explanations.

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