Facebook Real-Time Search Goes Live

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Facebook debuted its new real-time search today. This new feature is almost certainly aimed at competing with Twitter, giving Facebook users the option of searching the past 30 days of status updates, photos, videos, notes and links posted by their friends. Of course, the new search tool also still includes profiles, pages, applications, groups and web search, interestingly enough powered by Bing.

In addition, the search feature will display all public status updates and profiles. Don’t want your updates to be public?

Edit your privacy settings by clicking on Settings in the top right corner by the search box, then click Privacy Settings. From this page you can navigate and edit your Profile, Search, News Feed and Wall, and Application privacy settings.

Brad Proctor

I disagree. The search function is not geared at competing with Twitter.

When people join Facebook the number one reason they join is to "keep up" with their friends, family and now businesses or celebs. The information shared on Facebook completely differs from that shared on Twitter because of that very principal.

Twitter is all about communicating about common topics or interests as they now have started to promote this instead of telling new users to tell the world, "What are you doing?"

Twitter is more of what is on your mind and the search on Twitter showcases that on a up to the minute basis.

Twitter is for your interest and Facebook is for your friends. Unless Facebook dramatically changes its user base this will not change.

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