Facebook is working on a search engine to search user profiles

Facebook is developing a search engine that can search someone’s user profile for posted content. The functionality will be tested first in the United States, the social networking site said.

The test was not initially announced, but the search function was discovered by a journalist from The Huffington Post, who shared his findings on Twitter. shared. For people whose search engine is activated, it is possible to search profiles by using the search bar on a profile page. By searching for keywords, content can be found that has been put online by the relevant user. Incidentally, users can only see posts that they have access to: for example, non-friends can only search each other’s public posts.

Facebook confirms to Mashable that it is working on the search engine, but that the test is currently limited to American users on the desktop or iPhone. Whether and when the new functionality will be rolled out more widely has not yet been announced: that depends on the evaluation of the test phase. According to Facebook, the search function is a feature that has been requested by many users.