Why does not google index/search social network pages ?

Discussion in 'Google' started by evenues, Mar 19, 2008.

  1. #1
    Why doesnt google search or index pages in social networks like orkut, facebook,myspace.
    What stops it ? Do social networks do not want information on profile searchable ?
    Is privacy the only issue?
     
    evenues, Mar 19, 2008 IP
  2. wardo

    wardo Peon

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    #2
    Probably to stop spamming from people trying to build links with fake accounts etc.
     
    wardo, Mar 19, 2008 IP
  3. dairyman

    dairyman Notable Member

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    ...and most of the social network sites have no follow attributes and hence google takes the least care in indexing all the pages from the social networking sites but that is not the case with dp.
    -Dairyman
     
    dairyman, Mar 19, 2008 IP
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    magda Notable Member

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    Profiles from facebook and friendster ARE searchable on google - unless you've specifically opted out.
    This is comparatively recent - they used to not be, and when they changed they did inform their users, but I suspect a lot of people have old profiles on those sites, not knowing that they can turn up in google searches now.
     
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    zexy Guest

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    There are a lot of indexed pages from these sites in Google.
     
    zexy, Mar 19, 2008 IP
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    What makes you think they are not indexed exactly? I see search results including pages from these sites a lot.
     
    ericfromandys, Mar 19, 2008 IP
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    I have seen many such pages in google search results ?
     
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    I have seen pages from some of these services getting indexed on Google and other search engines
     
    alokverma, Mar 20, 2008 IP
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    priyakochin Banned

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    they are nofollow links.Thatz why!
     
    priyakochin, Mar 20, 2008 IP