Facebook’s ‘Don’t be Evil’ Google Fix Now a Chrome Extension

New bookmarklet called “don’t be evil” modifies Google’s code of the Search plus Your World feature and includes results from different social networks like Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, GitHub, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. The code of the bookmarklet was released as open source so that anyone can use it to create similar browser extension.

The original bookmarklet requires that you click on it after you submit your query to Google. The new results include links to CrunchBase (not exactly a social network, but okay), Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, FriendFeed, GitHub, Google+, LinkedIn, MySpace, Quora, Stack Overflow, Tumblr, Twitter, instead of just Google+. Once you’ve visited google.com and clicked on the bookmarklet once, it will continue to work for subsequent queries until you click away from google.com. Next time you visit google.com, however, you have to click the bookmarklet again.

Google says it requires permission from other social networks like Facebook and Twitter to deeply crawl their websites in order to provide a consistent experience with SPYW. Since Facebook and Twitter don’t give Google permission to their users’ private content, SPYW only includes Google+ content, and neither company is very pleased about this.

The point of the bookmarklet (and now extension) is to show Google is lying; the search giant already indexes all public information on social networks, and there’s no reason why it can’t use that data as well. The tool never accesses any server or API outside of google.com. The information being provided has already been indexed and ranked by Google.

The bookmarklet was originally released for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari (Internet Explorer and Opera users are out of luck), so it’s still possible someone will build a Firefox add-on and/or a Safari extension.