When Facebook Launches the Real Social Search Engine

Social search is a type of web search that has been touted as the basis of the search engine of the future. Many have attempted to tackle the challenge of social search but so far all have failed. Back in March of last year, Will M of AllFacebook interviewed Aditya Agarwal, Director of Search Engineering at Facebook, about the future of Facebook’s social search. Aditya hit on some of the core competitive advantages that Facebook has over other social search engines, the primary advantage being Facebook’s accurate mapping of the social graph.