Facebook Profile Search

Oleh Benn

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If you’ve ever needed to find something on a friend’s profile, you’ve likely found yourself dong a good amount of scrolling. An option to find specific posts on an isolated profile page hasn’t existed — but some folks have spotted one in the wild. In fact, when it launched, it billed itself as “the world’s first dedicated search engine for Facebook.” Facebook allegedly changed its mind about selling off its users and shut off the spigot in 2010, after which Profile Engine sued it. According to Facebook wants to eliminate the process of meticulously scrolling through a friend’s page to dig up old posts. The social network is testing a new feature on the desktop and its iPhone app that would allow users to search individual profile pages According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Facebook will allow Google’s search engine to crawl through and index its mobile app. Effectively, users could continue to search for public profiles, and the data for these queries would be fetched from Facebook has just allowed the search giant to finally crawl and index pages from Locked content cannot be indexed so private Profiles, Pages, Groups, and Event won't come up on the results. You can only see them while within Facebook and if an account Facebook looks to be testing the ability to search individual pages. Alexander Kaufman, The Huffington Post’s business editor, was one of the first to spot the “Search this profile” feature in the wild. In a Twitter post, he showed the evidence of .

Facebook appears to be quietly rolling out a new search feature: the ability to search within individual profiles. Although no official announcement has been made, Facebook users are reporting a new search box showing up on individual profiles they view. The social network has begun allowing Google's search engine to crawl and to index its app, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google searches from Android smartphones will now display information from public Facebook profiles, Pages, Groups, and Events Google has brokered a partnership with Facebook to make the social network's mobile app more search-friendly be able to find Facebook deep links that take you straight to public profiles, pages, and posts within its app. Until now, Google has not Now with public profiles, pages, and posts from Facebook showing up, Google’s search functionality is even more robust. For Facebook, the advantage is that these search results are more of an invitation. The displayed results are links that will direct .