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Facebook Builds Up Mobile Search To Help Index Your News Feed

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BuzzFeed - The company said it was rolling out search updates to its iOS and desktop versions starting today. Facebook Facebook's search tools are getting an update beginning today, including a new way to search for existing posts instead of only people on Facebook. The typical example, seen above, would be for a person searching for some related topic to a person — like a vacation, or a wedding. Those search results will return photos and posts linked to those search terms, much in the same way a Google search might. Facebook first rolled out its Graph Search in 2013, which started as an engine built around how people speak and write, with queries like "photos of my friends in New York." Today's update brings mobile search more in line with typical keyword-focused search behaviors, though the original search queries and their variations still exist. "You get more precision out of structured grammar, but it's difficult to formulate your queries that way," Facebook product manag

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