Comments on: Facebook Launches Search

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:55:59 +0000

I appreciate the reply Brian even though it’s clearly an impersonation of a Google employee.

By: Brian F

Brian F — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:49:55 +0000

Facebook might do that if they are here a year from now. Our Google+ signups, user engagement and traffic are going through the roof and it’s all organic; people just love our service. They come to search and then want to find out more about our fascinating Google+ service.

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:41:21 +0000

Garick,

I too turn to Google when I want to find something. I’m just not convinced that’s automatically how we’ll discover information in the future. If Facebook can continue to dominate our attention, they have the capability to begin to surface information based on our own social gestures as well as those in our social graph.

At first I think this might only take a small piece of the search puzzle, those times when something you stumble across (perhaps a news story) leads to another question. But if Facebook can begin to answer those questions within their own interface, I think it’s a slippery slope (and one really good UX treatment) away from a secondary active search within that platform. Once that occurs I think it gets interesting.

That experience may be longer off than I think, but I’m still impressed with how big Facebook is thinking and where they seem to be headed.

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:30:53 +0000

Teresa,

First off thanks for reading. As for TL;DR, it stands for Too Long; Didn’t Read. It’s often placed at the beginning of posts but I tend to use it as a sort of summation of what I’ve written instead.

By: Teresa Ashley

Teresa Ashley — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:23:29 +0000

I’ve been reading your blog for a few weeks and somehow never caught on to the meaning of TL;DR. What does it mean?

By: @iloveGarick

@iloveGarick — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:52:29 +0000

Curiouser and curiouser! But does it really matter when search is still ranked/dominated by Google and the increasing attention to Google Plus for search results?

I mean, does anyone use Facebook as a search engine? To be honest, if I ever want to find knowledge on just about anything, I still turn to Google as my first and foremost source of information.

To prove my point, just look at the tab to the right. At this moment, there are 13 Google +1′s as opposed to only 9 FB likes.