Author Mike Melanson, Inadvertent SEO Superstar
[1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2C+facebook+login
Very sad, but I guess it's really a good reminder that we live in a bubble. For a lot of people, the Internet is magic and they don't know what to do when something changes.
edit: the best I can find is "facebook true login", I bet there's another combo that RWW is listing first for.
So it's the preferential treatment Google gives to "news results" that moved this page to the top.
But how many people who google "facebook" are looking for anything other than facebook.com? I know that people like us it seems no one would logically go to the site that way, but those of us who watch people use the web know better.
So this seems like a case of Google returning results on what it imagines people want rather than what I'm willing to bet the statistics overwhelmingly indicate people want.
Interesting.