The Google Conundrum

[MJZiggy]

This is an interesting thread. I'm not on facebook or twitter, but I've had a lot of people request that I sign up for facebook, so they can network with me that way, so I probably grudgingly will go there. I find the aspect of several different networks having content 'walled off' from one another to be disturbing. So now when I search for info using google I guess I know that I'm probably missing entire massive set(s) of information. But is this entirely true? Google searches seem to have facebook and twitter links - what is that all about?

Everybody wants to be on Google. You want to be optimized so that Google can find you with all the right keywords. Google does find facebook and twitter, but doesn't using twitter and facebook to index content limit you to the content that's been posted to facebook or twitter (and not both)? I'm not sure I trust folks on facebook to have the best judgment on what's worth posting.

[3irty1]

This is an interesting thread. I'm not on facebook or twitter, but I've had a lot of people request that I sign up for facebook, so they can network with me that way, so I probably grudgingly will go there. I find the aspect of several different networks having content 'walled off' from one another to be disturbing. So now when I search for info using google I guess I know that I'm probably missing entire massive set(s) of information. But is this entirely true? Google searches seem to have facebook and twitter links - what is that all about?

Google indexes facebook profile pages but as far as I know they don't grab anything that would show up in the newsfeed. Twitter is nearly the same. Sites like twitter and facebook that have the content change nonstop can't be indexed by google in a practical way.

[Freak Out]

Most of the content on FB you find while searching with ANY software you can't see unless you are signed up for FB...which I'm not going to do.