Whats the right balance for the search function on Facebook?
Taylor: The primary use of Facebook search is finding people. The thing a lot of the technology community has been focused on is searching over the Facebook stream. But on Facebook, the primary purpose of the search box is finding people. A distinguishing feature of Facebook search is that it’s personalised by default, so you can search through all your friends’ updates. It’s a very unique and personalised experience over a set of content that is very personal, like status updates and photos. Searching over the status updates tagged with the [public] “everyone” setting has been very well-received by our users, but we haven’t invested tons of efforts into it because we’ve been focused on other areas of the site to date. We’ve been eager to hear everyone’s feedback as we exposed the APIs [application programming interfaces], but I don’t think we have any specific plans to announce at this point. IDGNS: Regarding your “everyone” privacy setting, which makes content available to everyone o
