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DarkMeld
on Aug 18, 2011
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Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For?
I just noticed how incredibly fast Facebook search is
melvinmt
on Aug 18, 2011
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It's not that fast, Facebook actually starts the search query from the second letter (about 174 ms), before that, it uses the prefetched cache of first degree friends and apps.
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