The public control search feature in Facebook controls whether non-Facebook users can find your business profile if they enter its name in a Google search. By default, the public search feature is ...

How to remove your Facebook profile from Google, Bing, etc. The answer is a resounding yes. Thankfully, it’s not hard, though it does take a few clicks of the mouse to activate.

When you initially sign up for Facebook, you’re run through a series of prompts asking you to enter your Google account information so that Facebook can import the email addresses of your contacts.

Your friends’ activity on Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere — but for now, not Facebook — will soon be a lot more visible in Google’s search results, including having an impact on how pages rank.

Google's trying to hit Facebook where it hurts, and Facebook is snapping up patents that may make Google's social-media aims harder to achieve.