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Discuss “Facebook listings take on the World [Wide Web]”

At the start of September, Facebook announced that it will give non-members limited access to user profiles. Now, almost anyone will now be able to look up any profile.

The expansion is to allow non-Facebook users to find their friends on Facebook without having to register for the service themselves, according to a Sept. 5 Facebook blog post by company engineer Philip Fung.

Within a few days, Facebook will allow all public listings to be indexed by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. This means that a user’s listing will be in the crawlers’ databases and anyone with an Internet connection can search for anyone’s name and anyone’s profile pictures.

The blog post goes on to state that public search listings display less information...

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