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In theory, if everyone had a facebook profile, wouldn't a facebook search be more useful than a google search in many instances? I don't think the search has to
by nanijoe 19y ago
In theory, if everyone had a facebook profile, wouldn't a facebook search be more useful than a google search in many instances?
I don't think the search has to be difficult to be useful. A facebook search can certainly provide more contextual (and by extension, more useful) information than a google search.
The question is, how large of a context do you want your search to touch?
I think that the size of the facebook (or myspace) user population can grow to such a point that internal search becomes a serious substitute for a more general search with an engine like google or yahoo.
- willarson 19y agoI think the trend you are pointing out is already in full force: often you'll jump over to Wikipedia directly, or IMDB to get data on movies. It is really easy to make search work when individuals format their own data into a specific format for usage by your search engine. This keeps on being useful until people start abusing it. In a social app like facebook it seems relatively less rewarding to abuse the system though.