how to search on facebook

A full-fledged search, the same as, for example, VKontakte or Google+, was practically impossible on Facebook. I had to put up with this and use other advantages of this social network in my work. Finally, Facebook has been equipped with a full-fledged search engine, and now it has become possible to find the information you need among 2 trillion archived publications. Life has become much more interesting! Right?

Because in search results you can now see the latest relevant posts from all Facebook users, and not just your friends.

TechCrunch clarifies that search results are organized in such a way that first posts from trusted sources are displayed, then posts from friends and family members, then popular links and quotes, and then posts from other sources.

There is, of course, one “but”, but it can be easily overcome. The fact is that a full-fledged search officially works only in the United States, but we will need to configure it ourselves.

How to set up search in your account?

To do this, go to your account settings and switch in the "Language" tab from Russian to English ( English (US).

Step 1.

Step 2

Now, instead of the usual sections, new tabs will appear on the panel (translated into Russian using Chrome):

The words in the search box are entered in Cyrillic, the screenshot shows the search results for the word "webmaster". But something tells me that they could be better)). Facebook probably decided everything for us here, including what information relevant to the query should be shown to us and what we can read.

How to search Facebook for information

In the first tab "Top" ( Top) we will see mail from our friends and promotional promoted posts.

In the second tab "Last" ( Latest) will display everything for this request from all users of the social network.

The rest of the tabs search by people, photos, videos, pages, places, groups, notifications, etc. I was a little pleased with the search by photos - a fairly large number of photos on the topic “webmaster” appeared, even an image from the group that I led almost 2 years ago was found.

The search is carried out according to the following principle (except for the “Latest” tab):

At the beginning of the search, results are always shown related to those with whom you have the most contact, that is, your friends. Next - with friends of your friends, in the end - everyone else.

It is worth noting that Facebook searches not only for the word "webmaster", which is in the text of the post, but also in the descriptions of videos and photos, sites, and hashtags. In the image above, you can see that the word "webmaster" is highlighted in blue. This feature has made searching easier and more convenient. And we just have to not be lazy, and add keywords to our posts - SEO now works on Facebook.

Advantages

Facebook is getting better! And we continue to use its capabilities in our work.