Having seen an old friend’s news pass along my Facebook news feed today, I decided to find out more about what he was up to. Naturally, I Googled him.

I was surprised to find his LinkedIn profile as the first entry, with the second, indented entry related to his entry in the LinkedIn directory.  See the image to the left.

This spiked my curiousity, and I searched myself and found the same result.

I then searched for Michael Arrington (the famous TechCrunch blogger) and found that his LinkedIn was on the second page, and in fact was ahead of Facebook as well, although his Twitter actually appeared on the first page.

Does anyone have any insight into how/why LinkedIn is ranked so highly in Google searches?

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