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On People.com, only Facebook users can comment. (The news story in question is about Justin Bieber going on a date to an R-rated movie with Selena Gomez, by the way.) Your name might be a little more searchable these days, as Google now indexes comments you publish on Web sites using the Facebook Comments platform. The change was spotted Monday, when Digital Inspiration noticed that Googlebots, the technology that scans web pages, now recognizes comments encased in Javascript platforms like Facebook Comments, Disqus, and Echo. Matt Cutts, a Google team member, later confirmed this discovery, tweeting "Googlebot keeps getting smarter. Now has the ability to execute AJAX/JS to index some dynamic comments." Web sites like DailyBeast, Patch, and Examiner, which use the Facebook Socail Plugin, let readers leave comments using their Facebook profile instead forcing them to create a new account. Comments published using the platform are accompanied by the user's name, profile picture, and a link to his or her Facebook profile. To many users, Facebook Comments is a convenience, eliminating the need to create a unique account, username, and password each time they comment on a different Web site or blog. The Social Plu... [Read more] ...
Friday, November 4, 2011
Say what? Google is now indexing Facebook comments
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