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When Facebook launched its Open Graph protocol in April, blanketing the Web with "like" and "recommend" buttons, it seemed obvious that one of the company's goals was to use the resulting behavioral data to power a social search engine—one based on likes instead of links.That process is now well under way, as a report at AllFacebook notes. The company has confirmed that all Web pages that use the network's open graph plug-ins show up in the social network's search results in the same way traditional Facebook pages do, as described by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in his keynote at the F8 conference.

Sites like YellowPages.com, Yelp.com and others that are showing up in Facebook's search results may become part of the new social media optimization default toolset. Is your business listed in the key social media networks to help you rank in Facebook's search results (fbserps)?

The world wide web is dead. Long live the world wide web.

In his closing keynote at Marketing's Search Engine Tune Up conference in Toronto Wednesday, Mike Grehan, vice-president and global content director with New York-based Incisive Media, spoke about how the world wide web wasn't built to handle the types of technology used on it today, much less for the needs of the future.

As it applies to search, that means even Google can't track every web page and, increasingly, people will be using other platforms such as mobile applications for the advantage of real-time search. "When it comes to real-time search, the world wide web is bust," said Grehan, whose company includes Search Engine Watch, ClickZ, and Search Engine Strategies.