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Google shut out by Facebook’s iron information curtain
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by Rich Cherecwich
on January 29, 2010
Expectations were high for Google’s new Social Search, which lets consumers search the content their friends produce on social media websites. But privacy restrictions at Facebook mean that Google’s tool isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and other social search tools are suffering as well.
Social Search, which searches content published on Twitter, Blogger, Flickr, and Picasa, only has access to Facebook’s public profile pages, which have very little information on them, according to a PCWorld report. Social Search only combs through public social media content, and since much of the information on Facebook pages is accessible only by signing in to Facebook, Google can’t include it.
Losing out on relevant data from Facebook — which has 350 million members worldwide — makes Social Search far less appealing, but Google isn’t the only search engine suffering from Facebook’s walled garden. Bing announced back in October that it would include Facebook status updates in its real-time search results, but it hasn’t happened yet because Facebook members can’t make those updates public.
The issue that search engines are dealing with is different from Facebook’s ongoing internal privacy policy. The social network is pushing its members to share their information with “everyone on the internet,” but it’s a misleading term. Sharing with everyone on Facebook means anyone on the social network has access to your information, but they must be logged in to see it.
Facebook currently has no plans to let its members make their profile information open to the entire internet, according to the report.
Marketing Gets A Makeover Thanks To New Facebook Service
Posted by: | CommentsBy Leon Hill
For OfficialWire.com
On January 29, 2010
Even newcomers to the Facebook marketing game will no doubt have discovered that the key to a successful Facebook marketing campaign is finding the right people to whom you should peddle your wares.
But here’s the catch: Finding the right market is also the toughest part of promoting yourself on Facebook. If you can do it right, you’ll be able to watch your bank account get fatter and fatter. Do this unsuccessfully, however, and your business will be relegated to virtual anonymity.
Lucky for all of us who want to market on Facebook, however, one company has created a way to make searching for the right target audience for your business a thing of the past.
Web traffic specialists uSocial.net’s new social media service allows customers to buy fans on Facebook. According to the company’s CEO, Leon Hill, this is the quickest and easy way to win the social media marketing game.
Hill explains: “We can deliver up to 10,000 highly-targeted fans or friends quickly and without trouble, to almost any page on the site. There is simply no other service like it on the web.”
USocial.net say they can make just about any business into a nearly overnight success online. What’s more, their program is able to target fans based on their geographical location or by interest or industry.
“We can deliver relevant people in almost any industry or interest group, from pets and animals, to business, marketing and so much more, explains Hill. “Not only that but we can also target geo-locations as specific as country for our clients meaning their final marketing efforts will be that much more powerful.”
USocial.net’s service is not the first service designed to help people make money online, but according to the company it is the very first one to allow customers to buy fans and friends on Facebook.
For more information you can head to http://usocial.net/facebook_marketing or you can contact the company via the form on their website.
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