| bguyJXCal |
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I swear, that is something as basic as you can get and Facebook fails horribly on it. The people search feature is ridiculous. It will return No Results, when in fact there are matches. Why is it so hard for Facebook to make a simple search feature? Let me guess, the engineers there are not smart enough to scale it properly. Myspace rocked with its search feature more than anything, being able to search for people down to detals such as height and body type. |
| Azaleas |
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Huh? The search feature already works really well. Actually it almost works too well, since you can find anyone if you know their first name and where they live. |
| bguyJXCal |
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Facebook came out the door half-assed with their search feature. I'm guessing they didn't have the brightest algorithm developers on their early team. With all of the money they have from the IPO, they should be able to hire people to fix their flaws. Another thing that pisses the users off: Friend requests being blocked for 30 days. I mean, seriously, what the hell?? They give you a list of people they think you might now, and then, when you send the friend requests, after some odd number of requests (which varies it seems), you get a notice saying you've been blocked from sending friend requests for 30 days. |
| bguyJXCal |
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You may be right with that. Maybe a lot of the misses were just for people who decided not to make their profile searchable. Thats something I didn't think about. IT still would be nice if they had a search feature by height, body type, etc, and it could make it more like a dating site. |
| jjjjjjjj |
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the newspapers made a big deal about their inability to monetize mobile use through ads, but they can make more by having people pay for stuff through facebook, whether through the new cell features for paying bills at businesses, growing rapidly, or buying plane tickets and the like. yahoo, no great example, makes far more from its users by having them buy plane tickets and hotel and car reservations through its sites, taking some off the top, than ads. you get the ads from the mobile use by working up the search through facebook, restaurants friends like in the area, etc., and get them to search and pay for everything through facebook, rather than google. you shut out google by closing it to external web searches and you never leave facebook. This was the reason that facebook became a $105 billion company with less than $2 billion in revenue, on the view that with a massive # of captive users whose Internet home would be that site. But the IPO was a classic case of greed, in that interest among the public was tremendous to get in it, but they floated a lot more shares at 50 percent higher price per share than was talked about only a week earlier (25 bucks would have been reasonable with some short-term upside to get investors excited). Facebook made a ton of money and lost goodwill. My assumption from the previous favorable press is that their developers really are going to do something special in the future, but for now it seems as if they have done very little to date. If they are that good, the stock will tread water for a while, maybe six months, and then be worth ten to twenty times present value in a few years. |
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Looking for that old girlfriend that dumped you back in high school, huh? We've all been there. |
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Are you sure that wasn't because a certain number of people rejected your friend requests?
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This. They defer to people's privacy (I know, I know). I heard Zuck speak about this at a conference a few years ago. Social Search was/is a major goal, but not at the expense of losing users. |
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The entire premise of your question is flawed. Why would you need to turn FB around? It is doing very well and recently raised a ton of money through an IPO. Why do you think it is in trouble? |