Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Facebook - New Search Function


         Face book the popular Social Networking site has launched a new search Function. It helps search friends based on the personal information in each profile. It has become a wide spread network similar to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. This search function is quite different because one can find people from their own school, college or similar likeness and interests. But this is not a direct competitor to Google as it is not a search engine rather it just helps the user find certain events that are not found in these search engines says Mark Zuckerberg. He adds to that saying that he does not intend to bring more people in to do web search rather help them find certain particulars of the event they are searching. He says that the new search function will help updating the graph every now and then. This shows the biggest different from the other web searches.
       I personally do not feel happy about this search engine because it allows people those relate to my personal information. It does not give me a broad view point. I also do not like my information to be available to everyother person no matter even if they are from my own school or college. I also do not wish to share my pictures with some person randomly just because we like similar activities and things. The reason I feel uncomfortable about this is because I have been used to looking at this as a personal site which now turns out to be more commercial or public which makes me feel uncomfortable and on other hand narrows down my search function to only things based on my personal information which is not dependable as I might have not mentioned all of my personal interests on my profile.

Search Engines in Facebook


Referred Sites:
     http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21032506
     http://www.onthemedia.org/2011/feb/25/how-search-engines-are-changing-journalism/transcript/
     https://www.thetakeaway.org/2013/jan/16/facebook-unveils-new-search-function/

     

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