Facebook new rival Google: activates its own search engine in the United States – Blasting News

Facebook is about to become a new competitor to Google and Twitter in the field of search engines. In USA has been added the “ Search FYI ” within the site’s social network. October 22, for the American version, as well as names of groups, pages and people, you can do research of English content posted by users. The daily search within Facebook 1.5 billion and 2 trillion members publish posts daily. Officials say the search function has been implemented with a view to long-term to share more and more information.

If it happens some important event, members connect to Facebook to see the reactions of friends, relatives and acquaintances. Now in the United States you can do even search of public content . Just enter the keywords of the news that you want to deepen direct access to news sources, and not just talking about it. It could be a substantial change to the media , who increasingly need to be present on the social .

New Features for Facebook search bar

will be highlighted content considered more reliable because they come from official sources or authoritative, will be followed by the news coming from sources followed by friends and finally the post more trendy or having been made more reference. 3 functions have been added to the search bar:

• If you enter the term to where you want to search appear in the preview Results the most appreciated by users and a friend’s post.
• will appear for the first most important news , but reloading the page will display the latest news on the subject.
• Look for the public discussions on a given topic. It refers to the most shared links on message boards of Facebook users and which is discussed more in the public interest. Search through the new FYI you can follow the debate around a topic and join the discussion.

Google cares

This new mode of research is for now only USA , and Facebook did not specify when it will be available for the ‘ Italy and all other countries. The novelty warns Twitter especially Google as a system internal search to the Facebook platform, could push people to use less than Google itself. We must wait to see how this new tool will change things.