Search Engine Referrals To Facebook Pages Halved

In January, Google released its Search Plus Your World, which was built to customize results to social networks, as well as to highlight Google Plus. Fears swirled among competing social networks, Facebook among them, that the search-engine giant had aims of boosting its own social network while limiting traffic to others.

In January, Google released its Search Plus Your World, which was built to customize results to social networks, as well as to highlight Google Plus. Fears swirled among competing social networks, Facebook among them, that the search-engine giant had aims of boosting its own social network while limiting traffic to others.

Appearing less often in search results on the site most Americans consult to find things would mean less traffic arriving to Facebook pages courtesy of Google.

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