Om Malik reports that Facebook will open to public searches (aka Google), and while they seem to state that certain areas and parts of profiles will remain closed, the old adage that there is no privacy on the Web continues to hold true.  

Granted there seem to remain some limits, but while we are electronically connected nothing can be taken for granted. Certainly not from a free site that aggregates information about its members as does Facebook. Hmm, seems more and more like Google’s own databases . . .