Comments on: Facebook’s Future is as a Search Engine http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/26/facebooks-future-is-as-a-search-engine/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ofer Egozi http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/26/facebooks-future-is-as-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-801290 Ofer Egozi Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:19:11 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3028#comment-801290 Hi Josh, Excellent insights. Indeed, to get true value from social search, you’d want to access all the information that's already recorded in your network previously. That’s where <a href="http://delver.com" rel="nofollow">Delver</a> differs from services such as Twitter search or HelpWith, as we index your entire network’s content and rank it in each user’s social context, ready to query at any time. It may also be worthwhile to mention that such useful but long-tail content will mostly be buried deep down by the big players’ authority-based ranking algorithms; hence adding Microsoft search alone will not suffice to make it surface on Facebook, it will take a much more complex integration to achieve that. Hi Josh,
Excellent insights. Indeed, to get true value from social search, you’d want to access all the information that’s already recorded in your network previously. That’s where Delver differs from services such as Twitter search or HelpWith, as we index your entire network’s content and rank it in each user’s social context, ready to query at any time.
It may also be worthwhile to mention that such useful but long-tail content will mostly be buried deep down by the big players’ authority-based ranking algorithms; hence adding Microsoft search alone will not suffice to make it surface on Facebook, it will take a much more complex integration to achieve that.

]]> By: Ian Hendry http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/26/facebooks-future-is-as-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-800320 Ian Hendry Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:09:03 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3028#comment-800320 I could not agree more. One personal recommendation is worth a page of Google results. Truer still when Google throws up so much irrelevance. We are already on the path to revolutionizing search at WeCanDo.BIZ where results are ordered by number of customer endorsements and through our Biz Needs feature you can tweeter what you need and people from your social graph come to you with suggestions. Ian Hendry CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ http://www.wecando.biz I could not agree more. One personal recommendation is worth a page of Google results. Truer still when Google throws up so much irrelevance. We are already on the path to revolutionizing search at WeCanDo.BIZ where results are ordered by number of customer endorsements and through our Biz Needs feature you can tweeter what you need and people from your social graph come to you with suggestions.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

]]> By: Internet Marketing Services http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/09/26/facebooks-future-is-as-a-search-engine/comment-page-1/#comment-800108 Internet Marketing Services Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:49:25 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=3028#comment-800108 I think that facebook can only grow because of its popularity. Adding search engines like Google etc. can only add to the possibilities of this type of social networking. <a href="http://www.galaxyinteractive.net" rel="nofollow"></a> I think that facebook can only grow because of its popularity. Adding search engines like Google etc. can only add to the possibilities of this type of social networking.

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