Publicly searching Facebook

fr3dr1k — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:30:08 +0000

As you all know by know Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world. Just do a search on the number of pages that link to Facebook by typing link:www.facebook.com in Google. My results show that around 194,000 pages link to Facebook. Its difficult to say whether the amount of pages that link to Facebook is a way to gauge the amount of attention it gets, but its interesting nonetheless. Facebook has a pagerank of 9/10 in my Google toolbar, which indicates how importantly Google thinks of Facebook. Another interesting fact is that you can search for people on Facebook by using Google. So for instance if you use my name and type Fredrik Erasmus site:www.facebook.com in Google then you will see 4 results. Now I wonder if those 4 results mean that those 4 people that have me as a friend have not made their profiles private. If for instance you type ASP.NET site:www.facebook.com then I get around 498 results and the majority seem to point to job opportunities. If I alter my search to ASP.NET South Africa site:www.facebook.com then I get 15 results, the majority of which are listed in the Marketplace application of Facebook, which generally means that a job/vacancy is being advertised.

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Publicly searching Facebook