Facebook has revamped its search engine so that suggested results drop down from the search box as people type in their queries.
Until now, Facebook users had to finish entering their query and hit "return" in order to see any search results, so this new functionality is intended to help people find what they're looking for more quickly and interactively.
This has been a common feature of search engines for years, but it sometimes takes Facebook longer to incorporate functionality into its search engine because it faces special challenges. To be truly useful, its search results have to be customized on the fly for each of the site's more than 400 million users, the company has said in the past.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9171979/
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Until now, Facebook users had to finish entering their query and hit "return" in order to see any search results, so this new functionality is intended to help people find what they're looking for more quickly and interactively.
This has been a common feature of search engines for years, but it sometimes takes Facebook longer to incorporate functionality into its search engine because it faces special challenges. To be truly useful, its search results have to be customized on the fly for each of the site's more than 400 million users, the company has said in the past.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9171979/
