FriendFeed has just released a set of new advanced search options, including the ability to filter results by the number of comments and ‘Likes’ each submission has received – a feature that will make it far easier to figure out where “the conversation” is occurring for a given news story. While the new search operators may not seem particularly exciting to casual users, they open the door to some powerful queries that can cut through the noise that had previously hindered the site’s search function.
From the company’s blog post:
* Search for words only in entry titles or in comments
[intitle:superbowl] – entries that mention “Superbowl” in the title
* Search for only entries that were liked or commented on by specific friends
[like:bret football] – entries about football that Bret has liked
* Search for entries with a minimum number of likes or comments
[comments:5 friendfeed] – entries that mention FriendFeed with at least 5 comments
* Exclude terms from your search
[jobs -steve] – entries about the job market, not the CEO of Apple
For a taste of what is possible with the new search functions, check out this thread initiated by Robert Scoble, where a number of users are submitting their own inventions.
In addition to the new operators, FriendFeed’s blog post also says that search will be “faster and more reliable”.
The best part is all of these things are provided in an RSS feed. Unfortunately, this RSS feed isn’t able to be imported back into Friendfeed.
still needs a banality-filtering mechanism …
friendfeed has always overwhelmed me somehow. Maybe this is the time to give it another try.
my vote for one of the most overrated startups in the last year. 4 or so ex – googlers and the best they can come up with is a content aggregator .
If I want to mine some data from FF, do I get full Twitter feed too? If so, I do not need to go to each source separately but just go to FF using RSS/Atom.
I am asking as I am not a big user of any of the social apps (not much of a social being) but I am interested in using some data for some analysis.
Thx
Nice.
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Soon, nobody will even remember what FriendFeed was. Yahoo!, Windows Live, Plaxo, Facebook already have the same functionality and it’s just a matter of time to catch up with the number of sources. I can’t believe FriendFeed is so slow and didn’t yet integrate yet with the new Netflix API – this is the only way to get movie ratings and they are pretty much the most important thing, don’t you think? Plaxo, for example, already supports the new API.
With just 1M users, FriendFeed is on shaky grounds. Compare this 1 million to the 150 of Facebook and the rest of the big boys…
Their publishing to Twitter is also a joke and TwitterFeed does a much better job even if it’s slower.