[Air-L] Facebook search?

Jeffery C. Lawshe lawshe at uw.edu
Sun Apr 14 09:28:12 PDT 2013


Have you looked into HootSuite already? It can create streams based on searches of public FB posts -- max 3 terms, basic Boolean operators. Not sure about its capacity for historical searches or exporting data, though.

-Jeffery Lawshe

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 14, 2013, at 3:06 AM, Wy Loh <lohweiye at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Casey,
> 
> If you're searching for a particular status update that you've posted in
> the past, you can download your facebook history (
> https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644) and do a ctrl+F
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> Wy
> 
> 
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>> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:30:47 -0400
>> From: Casey Tesfaye <klt35 at georgetown.edu>
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>> Subject: [Air-L] Facebook search?
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>> Hi there,
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>> Does anyone have a way to search for a particular post on Facebook? I've
>> tried a few ways, with no success...
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Casey
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:31:36 -0700
>> From: Ellis Godard <ellis.godard at csun.edu>
>> To: 'Casey Tesfaye' <klt35 at georgetown.edu>, <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook search?
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>> This is one of the main reasons Facebook is for the here-and-now and not
>> much else. Historical data is quite useful to the company, but unsearchable
>> and largely inaccessible to everyone else.
>> 
>> If you know what page it's on, you can scroll down and let the page fill
>> with posts (hours worth? Days worth? Years worth? Scroll farther back than
>> you expect it to appear), then search on the page (CNTRL-F).
>> 
>> If you know it's within your data (your posts? Your page), you might still
>> be able to export everything and search that way?
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-
>>> bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Casey Tesfaye
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:31 PM
>>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>>> Subject: [Air-L] Facebook search?
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>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have a way to search for a particular post on Facebook?
>>> I've tried a few ways, with no success...
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Casey
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