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Facebook can't afford to spurn marketing firms like New York's Attention PR. But it does. Last Friday, Attention PR built a Facebook page for a client — a new kind of souped-up profile that can be advertised on Facebook. Though not as well known as Beacon, Facebook Pages are part of Mark Zuckerberg's once-every-hundred-years change in media he promised in launching SocialAds. But as of Monday evening the page remains unindexed by Facebook's search engine, rendering it essentially invisible. That's a problem for a client who wanted immediate results. Isn't that the whole point of advertising online?

Aware that Facebook's search engine sometimes take 48 hours to index new pages, Attention PR's Naomi Hirabayashi told us she waited until today to approach customer service. That's when Facebook got obnoxious. Here's the email sequence.

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Think this kind of service will inspire Attention PR's client to buy SocialAds to promote their invisible Facebook Page?