Last month, we began testing new versions of Search with a small group of people on Facebook. Based on the success of those tests, we're rolling out a new version of Search to everyone on the site beginning today.
You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a fan. If people have chosen to make their content available to everyone, you also will be able to search for their status updates, links and notes, regardless of whether or not you are friends. Search results will continue to include people's profiles as well as relevant Facebook Pages, groups and applications.
To search for a particular term, just enter your query in the search box in the upper-right corner of any page. Once you're taken to the search results, use the filters on the left-hand side of the page to view only posts by friends or posts by everyone. If you're searching for a specific person, Page, group or application, you also can filter by those results. By being able to search more types of content that are being shared on the site, you can easily find out your friends' evening plans and recently frequented restaurants by searching for "dinner," discover which of your friends are following Michael Schumacher's comeback during the "Formula 1" season by searching for the race series, or query "economy" to see if people or your favorite news sources feel that the recession is turning around. You also can search for a company or product to learn what people are saying about that brand.

 

 http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=115469877130

The social networking giant has taken major steps into the increasingly pivotal realtime search market this week by launching a completely overhauled search engine and sealing the $50m acquisition of FriendFeed.

"You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you're a fan," said Facebook engineering manager Akhil Wable. "If people have chosen to make their content available to everyone, you also will be able to search for their status updates, links and notes, regardless of whether or not you are friends. Search results will continue to include people's profiles as well as relevant Facebook Pages, groups and applications."

Combine this with the addition of FriendFeed, an online content sharing service, and you create in one fell swoop a realtime search and content sharing platform that covers 250m Facebook users - a sizeable segment of the online community.

Now factor in the growing trend amongst web users to filter Internet information by friend recommendations and discussion forums and you suddenly create a far more structured and inviting search sandbox than the daunting open space of a Google search box. After all, with Facebook you are searching within content that has already been filtered for you by people you know/once met at a bus stop for five minutes and never talked to again. Yes, these are tiny baby steps and numerous holes to plug, but the core theory is solid. After all, if Google can challenge Microsoft by building through the (then) backdoor of search, could Facebook challenge Google by building through our friends and colleagues?

 

 http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/news/2009/08/11/Facebook-Seals--50m-FriendFeed-Deal--Enters-Realtime-Search/p1

Sign up to Friend Feed

About FriendFeed
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FriendFeed is a service that makes it easy to share with friends online. It offers a fun and interactive way to discover and discuss information among friends.

Sign up for FriendFeed, invite some friends, and get an instant, customized feed made up of the content that your friends shared - from photos to interesting links and videos to messages just for you. And your friends get their customized feeds, full of the cool stuff that you've shared.

It's fast and easy to start a conversation around shared items, or to show that you like something a friend has shared. You can subscribe to updates from individuals and groups, such as your family or a team of people you work with. On FriendFeed, you and your friends contribute to a shared stream of information - information that you care about, because it's from the people that you care about.

You don't need to install anything to use FriendFeed. You can read and share your FriendFeed however you want - from your email, your phone or even from Facebook. If you make your FriendFeed publicly visible, your friends can see what you're sharing without creating an account, and you can embed your feed in your home page or blog. FriendFeed also lets you pull in updates from other sites around the web, and even publish your feed to services you already use, like Twitter.

So sign up and try it for yourself. Why FriendFeed? Because it's fun, fast and conversational. And because everyone has something to share.