Social networking site Facebook has updated its search options to include articles that one's friend has "liked", reports AllFacebook. From now on when a user will input their query into the Facebook search articles related that someone has liked in the network will be included.
Mostly, in Facebook's new tool, the search results' ranking goes by the number of likes a story gets. But if you check yourself you will see that in some cases the results are not ranked by 'like'. Sometimes the item with much lesser number of likes takes precedence over a story with a lot more likes. But as I said, that happens in some cases not in most cases.
Seemingly, the feature is meant to basically divide stories in categories based on how many times someone liked the result.
Apparently this Facebook feature is an attempt to better serve the needs of Facebook users with the assumption that user's friends can give better results instead of going to the entire web like Google search. But that does not mean that it is better than Google search, as the Facebook feature is not as easy as Google search to use and the results are limited unlike Google.
