Facebook’s a formidable entry in the social networking field - we all know this. But the company’s announcement that it is also doing well in people search (indeed, in Facebook’s own words, it is the “[m]ost used people search engine on the web”) came as a surprise to many.
Granted, a lot of companies say they’re leading in this or that, but Facebook has statistics to back up its claims. For example, there are “[o]ver 500 million searches per month,” according to Aditya Agarwal, a Facebook Tech Lead, who notes, “This makes us one of the top 20 search engines on the web in terms of number of searches.”
Agarwal also mentions “[a]pproximately 1 terabyte of in-memory data” and an “[a]verage search query time of less than 100ms.” Not bad.
He goes on to speak about personalized search, as well - this guy hits on all the hot topics. “Facebook search results are sorted by an approximation of social graph distance,” Agarwal writes. “People closer to you in the graph - your friends and people in your networks - are likely to be more relevant to you and thus are ranked higher. . . . Facebook search’s key differentiator is that search results are unique to every user because they are based on a[n] individual’s place in the social graph.”
As for what we should make of all this information, it could be an indicator of a new direction for Facebook - Agarwal does mention “big plans to improve Facebook search.”
Others, such as Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, have taken the post as a “Not So Subtle For Sale Sign.”
In any case, it seems that Facebook is a more powerful entity than many of us ever guessed.
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