Earlier this week, Facebook announced a bunch of new live video features, giving users more ways to discover, share, and interact with live video as well as more ways to personalize live broadcasts. The new features include Live for Groups…
Facebook Pages Get New Search Feature
Facebook is testing a new feature that lets you search for posts on a Page. Recently, the company was seen testing a feature that let you do the same from profiles, but now they appear to be extending it to…
Facebook Professional Services Is Pretty Similar To Facebook Places…but for Services
Earlier this year, Facebook put out a new local search and discovery tool at Facebook.com/places, giving users a look at places with Facebook Pages, including those your friends have been to (with their comments) and others with reviews from strangers.…
Facebook Tests New Search Feature
Facebook has been making improvements to how people can search throughout the social network for several years, and now they’re testing a way to search individual profiles. A few people have reported seeing it including Huffington Post business editor Alexander…
Facebook Search Updated, New Optimization Opportunities?
Facebook announced some new search capabilities, potentially making the social network better for finding updates relevant to things you’re looking for or interested in learning about. Naturally, anything that makes it easier for users to find things can only benefit…
Zuck Discusses Facebook Search On Earnings Call
Facebook reported its Q1 earnings on Wednesday, and while it wasn’t talked about a great deal, the subject of Facebook’s efforts in search did come up during the ensuing conference call. In his prepared remarks, CEO Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that…
Zuckerberg Opens Up About Facebook Search
As you may know, Facebook greatly expanded its search offerings last month when it launched the ability to search posts. You can now search keywords and get back results from people and pages you’re connected to. It instantly made Facebook…
Moz Founder Rand Fishkin On Facebook’s Approach To Search
Last month, Facebook launched an update to its search experience enabling users to search keywords and get actual posts as results. This is arguably the most significant search feature Facebook has ever added beyond he ability to find a person…
Facebook Gets Rid Of Bing In Search Results
Last week, Facebook began rolling out an update to its search experience, finally enabling users to search keywords and get actual posts from their network. One part of the update that the company didn’t exactly announce, but that some have…
If You Live In The United States, You Now Have Facebook Graph Search
Facebook announced on Wednesday that Graph Search has finally completely launched to all users in the United States (in English). About a month ago, the company indicated that the process to getting it to everyone in the country had begun.…
Facebook Tests More Versions Of The Search Box
Here is what Facebook Graph Search has looked like for me until today: Everybody else that has had Graph Search that I have seen has had the same design. That is until last week, when we spotted a new design…
Change Of Mind Could Pose Relevancy Problems For Facebook Graph Search
Add this to the list of speculation surrounding Facebook’s Graph Search: it might start an “un-liking rebellion”. Some analysts are suggesting that as people start using Facebook Graph Search, users are going to start being associated with things they may…
It’s A Little Early To Dismiss Facebook Graph Search As “Not A Big Deal”
Facebook’s Graph Search is generating mixed reviews all over the web. Pretty standard for any product Facebook launches (or any major launch from any major tech company, for that matter – remember the iPad launch?). There are a lot of…
Local Search Is Where Facebook Could Quickly Take A Stab At Google
On Tuesday, Facebook unveiled Graph Search, and I’ve been doing little but reading and writing about it ever since. There’s one conclusion I’ve drawn about it so far, above all else, and that’s that we have no idea how big…