Facebook Introduces Universal Search, Indexing All Public Posts
Facebook has made its entire index of public posts searchable, according toan announcement by the company today. Previously, conducting a search on Facebook would return results from friends, family, Pages you like, and other sources you had some affiliation with. Now, just like Twitter and other social networks, conducting a search on Facebook will return results from everyone who published a post containing that keyword. Facebook’s index now includes over 2 trillion posts, with over 1.5 billion searches being conducted each day. In addition to expanding its search index to include posts throughout the network, Facebook has also made the following improvements to its search engine: Better suggestions: Typing in the search box will return better, more personalized results on the fly. Facebook will also highlight topics that are going on right now. Filter Friends/Public: When search results are returned you can toggle between results from your friends, and pu
