New Facebook Search Launched Today
Source: Alex Hull
Lately, Facebook has been working on upgrading and updating some of it features. It’s not because Facebook is not making any money, but because Facebook wants to make its users even more addicted to its site than they already are. One might wonder, is that even possible? Apparently it is. The lasts update is the new Facebook search feature which was announced on Monday. This is actually an upgraded version of the one Mark Zuckerberg announced back in February, which has been available only in beta.
The new and improved Facebook search lets its users search posts from the newsfeed that go back years, if using the proper keywords.
For example, Facebook users from the US can search words like “New York restaurant” or “Interstellar” and receive recommendations from their Facebook buddies. The new search is not about seeing posts the user has already seen. As we all know, Facebook only allows its users to see a limited set of posts, thanks to their secret algorithmic program. So we don’t get to see everything our Facebook friends post in our Newsfeed.
The new Facebook search feature will go through all the posts we haven’t seen and match our keywords. It’s different than Google search because the Facebook search gives us posts from the people we know.
The new Facebook search feature is something that was missing from the newsfeed and many wonder what took so long to finally introduce it. Although it’s pretty helpful, the new Facebook search can always be improved. For example, if searching for “New York restaurants”, it will only give the user posts that include those exact same words. This means that a lot is left out.
Facebook needs to work on its algorithm and make the search work more naturally. Also, there are a lot of useful information in comments and the new Facebook search feature is not taking that into consideration.
Competition like Yelp can rest assured because Facebook is known to announce new features with overwhelming excitement and slowly but surely, most users forget about it. Facebook Paper is a good example: the newsfeed reading app received great reviews when it was launched and then no one talked about it anymore.
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