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Discovering and making connections to friends, applications and other voices is an important part of your experience on Facebook. That's why today we are rolling out an improvement to Search to help you quickly find and connect with the people, Pages, groups, events and applications you care about.

Now as you're typing in a query in the search bar, you will instantaneously see results not only of the people, events, groups and Pages you're connected with but also the connections of your friends and globally relevant results. You'll see a wider variety of relevant results and be able to discover new connections you might want to make on Facebook right as you're entering your search.

For example, if you start typing in "MGM" to find the Facebook Page for the band MGMT, you may see it as the first result in the drop-down menu because you or one of your friends is a fan of MGMT on Facebook. You can simply hit enter on that result and you will be taken directly to the MGMT Page.

If you are searching for something else, like the MGM Grand Las Vegas hotel or the movie studio MGM, you can select one of those instead from the drop-down menu.



If you don't see what you are looking for in the drop-down menu, you can go to the search results page by selecting "See More Results" from the bottom of the drop-down menu. You'll be taken to the full results, where you can sort by different categories and refine your search further.

We're rolling these changes out gradually over the next few days, so you may not see the new results just yet.


Wayne, a Facebook engineer, is searching for friends who play Pet Society.