Google Adds to Its Real Time Search Results with Facebook Fan Page Updates

As part of Google’s effort to increase its position in real time search engine results, Google will now start indexing and displaying Facebook fan page updates. This should increase traffic for both companies. For instance, Twitter has had a 9 percent increase in numbers of hits since Google started monitoring the service in December 2009. Google also monitors updates in Buzz, its own version of social networking that incorporate gmail and that has just recently gotten off the ground.

However, Google is currently only tracking Facebook fan page updates, not user updates, which are more like Tweets because they come from individuals. This is not going to increase the real time results much as there are far fewer fan pages than individual pages, which are currently updated more than 60 million times a day!

Because fan page owners currently only can rely on Facebook sharing and traffic to get their message out, this news about Google is an exciting new way to make an impression on the internet. Webmasters who don’t currently have a Facebook fan page set up yet should use this opportunity to do so, because their updates will show up in real time indexing without spending a penny on advertising or SEO.