"Search" Tag

Facebook Graph Search in Examples

facebook_graph_searchFacebook Graph Search is not yet released for everyone, however, the social network already published some examples of the new social search best practices. Facebook believes that people don’t use it actively and don’t know its full potential.

Therefore, in a recent blog post the company highlighted a few examples of searches: videos, old photos of friends, my engaged friends, images from popular news sources.
There are also examples related to the location: hotels nearby the sightseeings, ski resorts visited by your friends, your places, applications and videos that your friends like, recommendations from the people with the similar interests.

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UPDATE: How to Hide/Remove Yourself From Facebook Search Results

facebook_fence_icoFacebook is constantly updating its inteface and settings configuration, so most of the How-To tutorials published in the various blogs are invalid now.

Today we are reviewing the up-to-date process of removing yourself from Facebook Search Results with screenshots:

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Twitter Search Update

twitter_searchSocial Searcher added Real Time Search Results to the Twitter Search service.
Now users can easily surf recent or popular tweets relative to their search keywords.

Following Search filters are supported:

1. Phrase search (””)

2. Terms you want to exclude (-)

3. The OR operator

4. From/To User Operators

5. Mentioning Operator

6. Attitude Operators

7. Question Operator

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Facebook Friendshake: Find Friends Nearby

facebook-friendshakeFacebook added a new feature to the mobile functionality, which helps users to find friends and other people by location.
Its original name is “Friendshake“, but the abbreviation specified in the URL (http://fb.com/ffn) means “find friends nearby“.

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New Facebook Search Engine – Google’s Killer?

facebook_search_exampleFormer founder of the ambitious, but failed Google Wave project, Lars Rasmussen, is now a part of Facebook team and working on a new, improved version of the Facebook search engine, which must compete with the Google’s one.

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Facebook Likes Now In Search Results On Bing

Facebook Likes will shortly be included in search results by the Microsoft Bing search engine. It has already affixed the social network Instant Personalization. Bing started to publish Liked results at the bottom of result page last autumn. The pictures of the persons who Liked a result are shown straight below the result.

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Facebook Improves Search Results

Results of typeahead search on Facebook recently became category-sorted and are divided into profiles, Pages, apps, groups, Events, and Questions nowadays. This division was introduced with the purpose to increase search abilities of account holders.

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