# Searching on Facebook

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 1, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113 "2012-08-01T22:44:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113/1 "2012-08-01T22:44:21Z")

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Has Zuckerberg not made Facebook searchable (i.e. you can search for content from your Timeline’s history) because:  
1)It hasn’t occured to him people want that  
2)It hasn’t occured to people THEY want that  
3)Software limitations  
4)Too expensive

I’d guess 2/3.

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**Author:** ![Enkel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Enkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enkel)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113/2 "2012-08-01T22:56:29Z")

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They are searchable (at least publicly available one are). I just tested it and got both notes and status updates. Of course, the results were buried very deep into the search results (like page 9+) in a search limited to ONLY [Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com), but that could have just been the search term I used.

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**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113/3 "2012-08-01T22:59:34Z")

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> [@Enkel](#):
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> They are searchable (at least publicly available one are). I just tested it and got both notes and status updates. Of course, the results were buried very deep into the search results (like page 9+) in a search limited to ONLY [Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com), but that could have just been the search term I used.

I assume you went to Google. I meant searching directly on [Facebook.com](http://Facebook.com)

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**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-on-facebook/630113/4 "2012-08-01T23:05:31Z")

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To pile on, I used to be able to click on “University of \_\_\_\_\_\_” or “Washington DC” to see my friends in that network, which was very convenient when it came to inviting people to events, or if I’m going to be in a different city, see who to catch up with. Now that’s gone.