Used to be if you wanted to get yourself Facebook fired or say, get yourself estranged from your mate, family or friends, you had to leave your dumb, stupid and otherwise inflammatory comments on Facebook, which — depending on how savvy you are about your security settings — would be the only place anyone could find them. But no more!
Google is now indexing comments left in those popular Facebook comment engines that blogs and websites — including TODAY — use to increase their social media footprint. This means your words of wisdom (or otherwise) can show up in Google search results.
Google via Digital Inspiration
This is great news for websites — if potentially not for you — because comments can help boost a site's Google search ranking as long as Google is able to see those comments. Previously, that wasn't possible as Google couldn't read comment engines powered by JavaScript within an IFRAME.
"Googlebot keeps getting smarter. Now has the ability to execute AJAX/JavaScript to index some dynamic comments," Googler Cutts posted on Twitter following Digital Inspiration's discovery.
