Facebook Announces Real-Time Search

Just hours following Facebook’s (FB) acquisition of Social Media aggregator FriendFeed, the ever-growing Social Media site announced real-time search for it’s users. The joining of the two entities gives Facebook some leverage to compete with Google and Twitter. In case you’re not familiar with FriendFeed, PC Magazine explained that:

FriendFeed aggregates and publishes updates from sites like Twitter, Yelp, Netflix, Blogger, and Flickr in one stream. It debuted in 2007 and is the brainchild of [Bret] Taylor, Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, and Sanjeev Singh – all former Google employees who worked on products like Gmail and Google Maps.

Facebook had been testing their new search product for about a month before going live on August 11th. The enhanced search will sort through the 250+ million users and update any search terms that are marked “Post by Everyone” in real-time. Read the rest of this entry »