Watch Out Twitter! Facebook Launches Realtime Search

August 10th, 2009 admin

Facebook’s on a roll today. Earlier today, Facebook acquired FriendFeed , one of the largest and most-discussed social media acquisitions we’ve seen in a long time. The deal is partly seen as a move by the world’s largest social network to boost their social technology, specifically realtime streams, conversations, social media aggregation, and search.


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