miércoles, 28 de abril de 2010

New Facebook search

http://www.insidefacebook.com/
New open Facebook Search is intended to help users find what they want for themselves. Search is an obviously huge business, with technology market leader Google and smaller competitors like Yahoo and Microsoft trailing behind.

Facebook has been making data public intentionally so it will appear in search engines, as a way to play a bigger part in this market. The privacy changes have already increased the number of user status updates in search results, but so far Facebook has been providing the data manually to big search companies through business deals, including ones with Microsoft and Google. The Graph API now enables far more searching options, as we covered in more detail here.

Simple tools already take advantage of this. A prototype-style site called Open Facebook Search let you search anything public that Facebook is tracking from outside the site. You don’t need to be logged in to access the data.