Citadel of the Blogs The Inbox of the Internet (really)

in contrast with the previous post, facebook.com does a very good job when searching names. while it doesn’t allow you to do exact matching it may do this automatically. in any case, i searched for myself and i was the first hit. it seems to understand that you want to search for people’s names…

the other thing to note is that you can search your friends’ friends but you cannot contact them if they are not in your network. it is an interesting innovation to privacy. the name and network appears but that is all you can do with it.

Continuing my analysis of MySpace, it’s search page is weak. you can’t even search by exact match. this is important since MySpace claims it is good to find your friends. well, I entered my own name and didn’t see my profile anywhere near the top page levels. you are probably better off using google but limiting it to MySpace domain. try putting this in the google search box (and change the name to whoever you want to look for)

site:myspace.com “chris graves”

here is the
result