Google+ links not showing up on Facebook

Facebook is apparently irked at the success of Google+ and is playing dirty, according to Google's Senior Vice President of Social Business, Vic Gundotra.

Padmini Harchandrai|Aug 25, 2011, 10:56:57 IST

Facebook is apparently irked at the success of Google+ and is playing dirty, according to Google's Senior Vice President of Social Business, Vic Gundotra. Gundotra says that up until Friday, Facebook wasn't showing any of the Google+ links that users shared. Google+ recently opened up more invites for more users to join and one way that users are sending out invites is actually via Facebook sharing. More and more Facebook users are actually migrating over to Google+ and Facebook is apparently ticked off about this.

The battle continues

In response though, Facebook has denied that it is specifically targeting Google+ links to block from newsfeeds. They do have a filtering system for newsfeeds where they remove spam from showing up. It could also exclude certain links from showing up on users' news feeds, especially if those links are posted very often. The issue seems to be resolved though, because Gundotra said that Facebook appeared to have stopped blocking those links on Friday. Look below for Gundotra's video demonstrating the block.

By Padmini Harchandrai

Paddy does not, we repeat, definitely does NOT belong in the category of Mac-head (yeh right!). She does get excited by her iPhone and her iMac and her iPod Nano and her Macbook and Bali's iPad and her future iHouse (patent pending). Ok, so maybe her head is a little bit forbidden fruit shaped. She likes shooting video (iPhone 4 camera zindabad!) and editing montages (Final Cut Pro zindabad!), whether the scene calls for it or no. In her spare time, she's either kicking it on stage with KB the keyboard or kicking butt at Taekwondo.