By now, everyone should know what Facebook is. If you don’t, welcome to 2008. http://www.facebook.com/
That aside, Facebook is becoming a larger and larger player in the online industry for social networking and community. By nature, whenever you get a database or website with the mass amount of users that Facebook or MySpace has, search becomes a serious feature.
Search on Facebook has become a widely used feature of Facebook.
Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, in the early days of search engines, were very apt to rank when webmasters used a lot of the same or similar keywords within the body of the page, also termed keyword stuffing.
I was browsing through Facebook last week and noticed this photo of Mat Mann.
So from what I can see, they’re keyword stuffing in order to get higher in the search results?
Not quite. As of right now, Facebook does not offer search functionality for photos. But when they do, they are going to have an amazing index and database of searchable photos. I would even hunch as much to say that it would be comparable to that of Flickr.
Should you be prepping your photos with a ton of keywords so when Facebook does come out, you’re all ready? Certainly not. Just like Google or Yahoo! improved its search algorithm, so will Facebook.
