Earthquake in the Bay Area? Facebook Real-Time Search Starts to Look More Interesting
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Although Twitter has until now owned real-time search results for news events, a minor (4.1) earthquake that hit Palo Alto and other parts of Silicon Valley today shows Facebook’s real-time search can also give you an interesting look at breaking news.
Just log in to Facebook and search for “earthquake” or “palo alto earthquake” or other terms. On the search results page, click on the “Posts by Everyone” option at the bottom of the left-hand navigation menu and you’ll see results from anyone on Facebook who has made their status updates publicly available.

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