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Facebook Flips The Switch On Real-Time Search, Goes After Twitter Where It Hurts

Source: TechCrunch

Aug 10, 2009

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Just hours after we broke the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed comes Facebook’s announcement that it’s deploying its improved search product to everyone. This improved search functionality, which has been in testing since June, gives users the ability to search through their friends’ status updates, and shared media. And, perhaps more importantly, it lets users search through updates shared to ‘everyone’. The gloves are off — Facebook is going after Twitter where it hurts.

The new search will be a breath of fresh air to anyone who has previously tried to search Facebook for, well, anything. Under the old system, users had to browse through clunky categories to find their results, and there wasn’t a way to search though status updates or shared iteams at all. Now you’ll be able to simply click through different tabs on the left side of the page to jump between different categories much as your would jump between Friends List on the Facebook News feed.

This is especially important because search has long been one area where Facebook fell well behi

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Business35,

Aug 11, 2009

is this turning into facebook or what?