FAQ
Facebook is having about 700 million registered users now and this makes searching people, friends and other stuff on facebook really a tough task. Here we’ve got the most common asked questions about searching on Facebook.
General Search Tips:
1. Phrase search (””)
By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Facebook Search to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. For example, search
“Obama Plans to Keep Estate Tax”
will find only facebook pages where this article from WSJ is shared.
2. Terms you want to exclude (-)
Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example, query
Cars in USA -Chevrolet
will exclude all references to Chevrolet from the search result on Facebook.
3. The OR operator
Facebook Search’s default behavior is to consider all the words in a search. If you want to specifically allow either one of several words, you can use the OR operator (note that you have to type ‘OR’ in ALL CAPS). For example, query
Real estate in USA 2009 OR 2010
will give you results about either one of these years.
Facebook Search best practice:
1. Facebook People Search.
You can use all information you’ve got to search. For examlple first name, last name, location, interests…
2. Facebook Business Page Search.
Try to use relevant information about the company. For example: location, business area, foundation date…
3. Facebook Fan Page Search.
It’s similar to search for people, but in this case you may add some keywords. For example: movie name, song name, sport…
4. Facebook Applications Search.
Add special keyword “application” to your search query and some describing keywords, like genre, special features…
5. Facebook Music and Video Search.
Add special keyword “music” or “video” and name of the singer, lyrics to the search…
6 Facebook Images Search.
20 Feb 2012 We released new Facebook Images Search feature. Now search results have 2 Tabs: Web and Image…
7 Facebook Search By Email.
Facebook provides easy way to find registered users by their email, but only if it was set to be visible for everyone. Most of time email information is private and people can’t find each other on Facebook, so www.social-searcher.com may be helpful in this case…
8 Facebook Search Android Application.
1 Feb 2012 We released Android Application “Social Searcher“, which allows to Search on Facebook Without Logging in! Application supports all languages for searching…
