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Can someone show evidence of this statement?

"Now, say you you write a public update, saying, “My boss had a crazy great idea for a new product!” Now, you might not know it, but there is a Facebook page for “My Crazy Boss” and because your post had all the right words, your post now shows up on that page. Include the words “FBI” or “CIA,” and you show up on the FBI or CIA page."

That is scary.

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Facebook has had stream search for public status messages since July of 2009. Stream search is privacy-neutral; it only lets you see posts you were already allowed to see.

If you don't want your status messages to be visible to everyone, set your privacy settings accordingly. Account -> Privacy Settings -> Personal Information and Posts and adjust the "Posts by Me" setting to whatever you like.

here you go:

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=my+crazy+boss

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=FBI

http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=CIA

Yeah this happens now, pages get a list of relevant status updates down the bottom, sometimes not so relevant. Almost seems like this should be restricted to people who like the page to keep it relevant. Also I wonder if there going to do anything about page fragmentation, they create a page for the exact way you typed something in, even though there is a more relevant page with different word formatting.

I could write a crawl for these words, if it was a public update.

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