Facebook raises new search service
Posted on 2009-08-17




Launched a social networking site "Facebook" new search service that allows users to search for a word or queries and updates through the writings of all users of the site or just friends, as well as continuing to provide access to the latest news of their friends and groups and applications involved.
The application provides new research on the nomination of the results of all users, control of news and updates each subscriber network, on major issues, which is similar to the role played by the social networking site "Twitter" in the news from Iran after the recent presidential election.
And Stenbhec search results page on "Facebook" The new findings, which come on your query-you-go, but the site does not occur until the entire page the user requests to do so.
The "Twitter" has launched a new master page based on the search for what users are thinking, where he had hoped through which attract large numbers of users.
Seems to be competition between the new social networking sites and also in the pirate attack, and this is what happened through the "denial of service" .. A recent electronic attack suffered by the site "Twitter" and "Facebook", a kind of cyber attacks designed to flood servers with data to disable significantly.
As a result of this attack, Twitter stopped working for two hours, while Facebook was forced to reduce the level of some services.
The newspaper "The New York Times, the U.S." to cyber attacks that took place were aimed at bloggers from Georgia participates in many of the sites affected by the attacks.
The Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder of the Code for the site: "The attacks of such malicious attempts to disrupt the management and the withholding of services such as banking and credit."
He returned to work after the site send this illustration, but the signatories and their attempts to protect their services originally from piracy, while officials said the location of Facebook users that information on the web site is not under threat.
Does not stop "Facebook" for adding more of the updates that is aimed from behind to increase the number of users, which recently announced a new series of privacy settings, will be available in the near future, allow the user to control who watched the special page on the site.
This feature will enable the user to select friends and not others, to see all his writings on the new special page.
So far, the site did not allow the use of such property only for a limited group of users, but will become available soon for all.
In describing the new property, the chief protection of personal data on the site, Chris Kelly, "You will be able to put out what you write for all, while preventing the vision of other people, whether they are friend or family member; so you will have the decision-making at a time in which you write on the your page, and soon everyone will be able to do so ", as users will be able to send things to the two or three people on their own pages, you can apply and will be listed as your friends to" groups "_ If you have so _ more useful.