Public Search Listings on Facebook

September 05th, 2007 | Category: Social Networking

Starting today, we are making limited public search listings available to public who are not logged in to Facebook. We’re expanding search so that public can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily. The public search listing contains less info than someone could find right after signing up anyway, so we’re not exposing any new knowledge, and you have complete control by your public search listing.

This is an example of how a public search listing appears. It contains your name and current profile picture thumbnail. whether you do not want that listing to seem, you can change your Search Privacy settings.

In a few weeks, we will allow these

Public Search listings (depending on users’ individual privacy settings) to be found by search engines like Google, MSN Live, Yahoo, etc. We think that will help more citizens connect and find value from Facebook without exposing any actual profile knowledge or input.

As always, whether you do not want your public search listing to be visible to folks searching from outside of Facebook, you can control that from the Search Privacy page. Please note that you will only seem in searches outside Facebook when your search settings are set to “Everyone”.