Monday, September 08, 2008

facebook group discussions + wall posts being indexed.


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I get asked by those tricky i think u have me on the ropes VC's, whether blog burnout will contribute to not needing to index the local blogosphere. Sure blog burnout exists, but mainly as it relates to competing with people's time spent on social networks, photo sites, etc. If you include (local) content creation across blogs and social network activity you have a tsunami of content needing indexing.

Facebook is a classic example where your friends status updates were made into an RSS feed which can be indexed and made searchable, and now we have some group discussions and wall posts in google et al, according to Inside Facebook. This is very interesting for brands wanting to know what is said about them online. Wonder if these are available in rss/atom format ?

Inside Facebook : "However, in recent days, many marketers and users have started noticing Groups discussions and wall posts showing up in Google search results."