The new name in search engines...facebook?

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Those of you who subscribe to my newsletter - I have already touched on this slightly, but I decided that I will  go ahead and make a full fledged post on the subject...facebook internet search.

Alright, show of hands, who here has heard of Google?  Alright, show of hands, who here has heard of facebook?  That's what I thought...everybody - unless your reading this in a coffee house or something, then you might look like you want to ask your computer a question if you raise your hand for apparently no reason...and you may be escorted out of the coffee house for "being weird".

Well, are you aware that there is talk in the facebook camp of putting an internet search feature on their site?  I mean heck, they already own the most traffic in the world...and they were the fastest ever to 50 million users (they had 50 million users faster than the internet did).

The talk is, that facebook wants to put an internet search feature on their site.  Facebook has recently revamped the look and interface of their site, with new profile and fan page settings.  In case you are unfamiliar with a fan page - or the new layout you can view mine here.

What makes this upcoming change so unique, is that it will incorporate a "like" feature in the search engine results.

Let's say for example you search for...the best kind of deodorant.  You plug that into Goo...sorry facebook and it will show the results - but next to the results it will have "56783 people like this" helping you choose which site is best.

Now, for the common browser and internet user, this is great!  However, for us internet marketers and seo experts, it is one more thing we have to worry about...in other words you can expect almost every page/article/blog post to say something to the order of..."please like this page" or "like me" or "if you don't like this page I will stab you with a butter knife and cause an infection in your arm"...I can see all of these being possibilities.

So folks, change is coming.  It may not be today, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not 7/15/2013...but mark my words the internet is changing and they way we use it is changing right along with it.

Thanks for reading...oh and "please like this page" - hey at least I didn't say I was going to stab you with a butter knife!

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