Facebook has updated the way search results are displayed, including how users browse through friend lists.
Read the rest of this entry »

An earthquake in Northern California this morning went unnoticed by hundreds of thousands of people, however Facebook noticed and was able to surface the statuses of those users who felt the quake and those who didn’t. Using Facebook search as a source for real-time information is something that was only recently made available, but with the recent privacy transition tool that users had to go through, much more information is now available with Facebook search.
Read the rest of this entry »

Google has received a lesser deal than what Microsoft got out of its deal with Facebook. The widely used social network is now being tapped for socially-driven real time search results, helping Microsoft and Google to give contextually improved search queries. Yet Microsoft’s Bing has access to all of Facebook’s public news feeds for this purpose, while the recently revealed details of Google’s deal with Facebook indicates that the massive search engine will only be able to access the public news feeds of Facebook Pages.
Read the rest of this entry »