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Google's nightmare: Facebook 'Like' replaces links
- jfi 16y agoFacebook's Like button allows the company to mechanical turk content rankings which could challenge PageRank's authority. Facebook could (and probably will) combine this Like data with their own PageRank-like link analysis, adding another layer of relevance, one which they would solely own. Facebook web-search feature coming out soon?
- ableal 16y agoFacebook Optimization may be the new SEO A death sentence for the "like buttons", if I ever heard one. (If the 'darkside' SEO turn their attention to it, I'd guess the buttons will be gamed into uselessness in six months flat, with no recourse in sight.)
- jfi 16y agoExcellent point. There are too many opportunities to use the Like buttons for evil (see: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_trick_users_into_liking_facebook_pages_theyre_not_on.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_trick_users_into...).