Facebook Now Testing News Feed Search & Public Timeline Search In Major Revamp
Tonight, Facebook has started testing a major revamp to Facebook search that promises to bring what many users and marketers have been clamoring for for a long time: live search of the News Feed and the public timeline.
Unlike the current Facebook search, which is pretty clunky in the way it organizes results, the new Facebook search is all about searching recently posted updates and content. Now, when you search on Facebook, you’ll get two sets of results:
- Most recent posts by your friends
- Most recent posts by all users who have made their profile open to everyone (including public profiles)
For example, here’s what a search on “Iran” would look like tonight:
If that looks very similar to Twitter Search, that’s because it is.
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