By George Norman - Software News Editor
Added on 11 Aug 2009(261 Views)
250 million accounts strong social networking site Facebook, after testing new Search versions on a select group of users last month, has announced that the testing phase is over and it is implementing a new version of Search and making it available to everyone on Facebook. This is the second time today that Facebook makes the headlines – earlier today we reported that Facebook acquired FriendFeed for an undisclosed amount of money. Following the acquisition, FriendFeed continues to function as normal, but this may change in the future.

Getting back to Facebook and the new Search, Software Engineer Akhil Wable explained that it was the success of the testing phase that determined the social networking site to roll out the new version of Search to every Facebook user. The software engineer also explained how the new Search version works.


“You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a fan. If people have chosen to make their content available to everyone, you also will be able to search for their status updates, links and notes, regardless of whether or not you are friends. Search results will continue to include people's profiles as well as relevant Facebook Pages, groups and applications,” said Wable.

Searching for something could not be easier. In the upper-right corner of the page you will notice a search box; enter you query in it and see what results Facebook fetches. To more easily locate whatever you are looking for, on the left-hand side of the page there are some filters – like for example the option to view posts only from your Facebook friends or posts from a specific person or group.

Speaking of search, Google has launched a web developer preview known as the Caffeine update – as part of this preview you are invited to test Google’s next generation search architecture (details here).





Don't forget to:

RSS



Via: blog.facebook.com

Tags: Facebook, Search

Link to this article:



Add comment:
Name(Required)
Email(Required - Never shown)
Website(Optional)
Comment(Required):

Insert the following code:
Software News
Chromium OS Goes Open-Source
This summer Google let the world know that it is working on a new operating system meant for the user that spends most of his time online. The operating system – aptly named Chrome OS because it is a natural extension...
20 Nov 2009
Office 2010 Beta Downloads Available to the Public
Earlier this week Redmond-based software giant Microsoft announced that Office 2010 became available for download as a Beta. The catch was that only ...
20 Nov 2009
Mozilla Releases: Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
The development process of the Firefox 3.6 browser is moving along rapidly. The first Beta version was released at the start of the month; Beta 2 was released about two weeks after Beta 1. About a week has passed since...
20 Nov 2009
New Labs Feature for Gmail: Green Robot!
The software developers at Google have announced the release of a new Gmail Labs offering called Green Robot! This new offering is meant to improve the Gmail Chat user experience by letting the ...
20 Nov 2009
Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Windows Mobile Is Out Also
Opera Software, the company that we all know for making the innovative and feature rich Opera web browser, has released Opera Mobile 10 Beta for Windows Mobile-powered devices. This release follows in the...
19 Nov 2009
Beta Testing is Over, Stable Version of Trillian for iPhone Released
The focus so far has been on desktop version of this multiprotocol instant messaging software application, Trillian Astra (version 4.1). Today is time to switch focus away from the desktop version and onto something a bit more...
19 Nov 2009
Recommended Tools

Top Downloads