What do you think is today’s “big news” from Faceboook or is it all hype? #facebook

Mostly hype, I say. Not impressed by all the buzz for what? A new feature for search that’s still in beta mode? Hmmm…

actually it’s quite brilliant. We just provided a fan with some actionable advice for her pet bird. So think about it, if the FB searchers search results put our fan page at the number 1 “SERP” sending us the traffic “organically” (because we have high fan engagement and “x” reach) it provides more value to us as a fan page owner. granted it’s not global like Google but a billion isn’t a bad number to work with especially because FB knows I like motorcycles. I post motorcycle related content, this is information Google does not have which would be good to know if i was searching for “triumph motorcycle parts” on FB. 

I definitely think there are some interesting possibilities
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But it will really depend on the execution.  Right now the Facebook search is so bad it’s a joke.  I hope that we will be able to find at least a Page name when we search for it. 

I also think it could be huge for brands.  If people are interacting on a brand page and then their friends search for something related to that brand and they see their friend’s post on the page (assuming it’s good) then it will really encourage brands to try and get interaction. 

I also think they need to come out with it quickly.  I’m sure they had a million or more people sign up for the beta testing.  Hopefully they are ready

I think it’s pretty cool.  After the Bing integration I knew they had to be doing something to make their search functional.  They have a huge development team over there that is always looking for features to improve and search was really needed some attention.  Glad they finally at least announced they have been addressing this issue.