diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index 5c6398084..40d5ff407 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -55,15 +55,6 @@ GIT
     carrierwave (0.5.0)
       activesupport (~> 3.0)
 
-GIT
-  remote: git://github.com/rsofaer/redfinger.git
-  revision: 07721f46d02b9d3aa04880788fecb0b4c1b284d7
-  specs:
-    redfinger (0.0.6)
-      hashie
-      nokogiri (>= 1.4.0)
-      rest-client (>= 1.5.0)
-
 GIT
   remote: git://github.com/rsofaer/sprinkle.git
   revision: 7c744ed158dda1f99a015e6a29d086e80bd8c635
@@ -409,7 +400,6 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   omniauth
   pubsubhubbub
   rails (>= 3.0.0)
-  redfinger!
   roxml!
   rspec (>= 2.0.0)
   rspec-rails (>= 2.0.0)
diff --git a/app/controllers/people_controller.rb b/app/controllers/people_controller.rb
index b82dcce18..ea56ed81b 100644
--- a/app/controllers/people_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/people_controller.rb
@@ -55,10 +55,6 @@ class PeopleController < ApplicationController
       params[:person][:profile][:birthday] ||= Date.parse("#{birthday[:year]}-#{birthday[:month]}-#{birthday[:day]}")
     end
 
-    search_flag = params[:person][:searchable]
-    search_flag.to_s.match(/(true)/) ? search_flag = true : search_flag = false
-    params[:person][:searchable] = search_flag 
-
     # upload and set new profile photo
     if params[:person][:profile][:image].present?
       raw_image = params[:person][:profile].delete(:image)
diff --git a/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb b/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb
index ae00cc7df..a5dd347e5 100644
--- a/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/publics_controller.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class PublicsController < ApplicationController
   def hcard
     @person = Person.find_by_id params[:id]
     unless @person.nil? || @person.owner.nil?
-      render 'hcard'
+      render 'publics/hcard'
     else
       render :nothing => true, :status => 404
     end
diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index 890b2a527..0fe6474aa 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ class Person
     #hcard_profile = HCard.find profile.hcard.first[:href]
     Rails.logger.info("hcard: #{ hcard.inspect}")
     new_person.url = hcard[:url]
-    new_person.profile = Profile.new(:first_name => hcard[:given_name], :last_name => hcard[:family_name], :image_url => hcard[:photo])
+    new_person.profile = Profile.new( :first_name => hcard[:given_name],
+                                      :last_name  => hcard[:family_name],
+                                      :image_url  => hcard[:photo],
+                                      :searchable => hcard[:searchable])
 
     new_person.save! ? new_person : nil
   end
diff --git a/app/views/publics/hcard.erb b/app/views/publics/hcard.erb
deleted file mode 100644
index c02d909b5..000000000
--- a/app/views/publics/hcard.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-<div id="content">
-  <h1><%=@person.real_name%></h1>
-  <div id="content_inner">
-    <div id="i" class="entity_profile vcard author">
-      <h2>User profile</h2>
-      <dl class="entity_nickname">
-        <dt>Nickname</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <a href="<%=@person.url%>" rel="me" class="nickname url uid"><%= @person.real_name%></a>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-        <dl class="entity_given_name">
-        <dt>First name</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <span class="given_name" ><%= @person.profile.first_name %></span>
-        </dd>
-        </dl>
-        <dl class="entity_family_name">
-        <dt>Family name</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <span class="family_name" ><%= @person.profile.last_name %></span>
-        </dd>
-        </dl>
-        <dl class="entity_fn">
-        <dt>Full name</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <span class="fn" ><%= @person.real_name %></span>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-      <dl class="entity_url">
-        <dt>URL</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <a href="<%= @person.url%>" rel="me" id="pod_location" class="url"><%= @person.url%></a>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-      <dl class="entity_photo">
-        <dt>Photo</dt>
-        <dd>
-        <img class="photo avatar" src="<%= image_or_default(@person)%>" width="100" height="100"/>
-        </dd>
-      </dl>
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</div>
diff --git a/app/views/publics/hcard.haml b/app/views/publics/hcard.haml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..869286964
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/publics/hcard.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#content
+  %h1= @person.real_name
+  #content_inner
+    #i.entity_profile.vcard.author
+      %h2 User profile
+
+      %dl.entity_nickname
+        %dt Nickname
+        %dd
+          %a.nickname.url.uid{:href=>@person.url, :rel=>'me'}= @person.real_name
+
+      %dl.entity_given_name
+        %dt First name
+        %dd
+          %span.given_name= @person.profile.first_name
+
+      %dl.entity_family_name
+        %dt Family name
+        %dd
+          %span.family_name= @person.profile.last_name
+
+      %dl.entity_fn
+        %dt Full name
+        %dd
+          %span.fn= @person.real_name
+
+      %dl.entity_url
+        %dt URL
+        %dd
+          %a#pod_location.url{:href=>@person.url, :rel=>'me'}= @person.url
+
+      %dl.entity_photo
+        %dt Photo
+        %dd
+          %img.photo.avatar{:src=>image_or_default(@person), :width=>'100px', :height=>'100px'}
+
+      %dl.entity_searchable
+        %dt Searchable
+        %dd
+          %span.searchable= @person.profile.searchable
diff --git a/lib/hcard.rb b/lib/hcard.rb
index d02e2b4ec..09acb7c8f 100644
--- a/lib/hcard.rb
+++ b/lib/hcard.rb
@@ -5,10 +5,11 @@
 module HCard
   def self.parse doc
     {
-      :given_name => doc.css(".given_name").text,
+      :given_name  => doc.css(".given_name").text,
       :family_name => doc.css(".family_name").text,
-      :url => doc.css("#pod_location").text,
-      :photo => doc.css(".photo[src]").attribute('src').text     
+      :url         => doc.css("#pod_location").text,
+      :photo       => doc.css(".photo[src]").attribute('src').text,
+      :searchable  => doc.css(".searchable").text
     }
   end
 
diff --git a/spec/fixtures/hcard_response b/spec/fixtures/hcard_response
index c3bfb2840..d229660d2 100644
--- a/spec/fixtures/hcard_response
+++ b/spec/fixtures/hcard_response
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@
         <dt>Note</dt> 
         <dd class="note">Diaspora is awesome! vi is better than emacs!</dd> 
       </dl> 
+      <dl class='entity_searchable'> 
+        <dt>Searchable</dt> 
+        <dd> 
+          <span class='searchable'>false</span> 
+        </dd> 
+      </dl>
     </div> 
   </div> 
 </div> 
diff --git a/spec/lib/hcard_spec.rb b/spec/lib/hcard_spec.rb
index 7228a1893..fbd4bb42c 100644
--- a/spec/lib/hcard_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/lib/hcard_spec.rb
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ describe HCard do
     hcard[:family_name].include?("Hamiltom").should be true
     hcard[:given_name].include?("Alex").should be true
     hcard[:photo].include?("tom.jpg").should be true
-    hcard[:url].should  == "http://tom.joindiaspora.com/"
+    hcard[:url].should == "http://tom.joindiaspora.com/"
+    hcard[:searchable].should == "false"
   end
 end