Updates About Status Search
Louis Gray did a very nice write up about Status Search and I wanted to take advantage of it and add some information he did not include in his blog post.
So yeah we were focusing only on status updates until we figured out that there is a lot of important and valuable information in all the other kinds of content your friends share (video, links, pictures). Also if you think about it, all of those types of content are actually just a status update with a link (to a web page, facebook picture or a facebook video).
Anyway we are happy to announce that today we added the ability to search inside your friends photos, links and videos. So we’re not only status updates any more.
Louis also mentioned FriendFeed and said that the site already lets him search his social graph. But my guess is that it lets him search in his “techy” social graph. FriendFeed lets you search only your friends that are registered to the website.
In Status Search you are able to search all your friends on facebook which probably includes your family, childhood friends, non techies friends and so on. Types of people you probably would not find on FriendFeed.
So to sum it up:
1. We’re not only a status updates search engine any more, but everything your facebook and twitter friends share. I think that’s the way a social graph search engine should be like.
2. FriendFeed social graph search engine is really limited. In Status Search you reach basically everyone you know (thanks to the powerful social graph of Facebook).
