Questions tagged [facebook-search]
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Privacy setting to hide Facebook account from Facebook search not available [duplicate]
Facebook no longer allows a user to hide their account from a Facebook search, from what I can tell. They allow a user to hide their account from outside of Facebook, but not within. I've tested the ...
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How do I find Facebook messages from 2014?
As of 2022, how can I find messages from 2014 for example?
For instance, there's a person who messaged me, which I can't find on FB anymore, maybe they closed their account. so I can't just search the ...
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How can I search posts only in all of my groups, excluding other public groups?
I'd like to be able to search for posts only in groups that I am a member of. However, Facebook only seems to allow me to search all groups, or a single group. How can I search for posts within all of ...
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How can I find interactions between me and one other Facebook user?
I want to search a Facebook group for back and forth in comments between myself and one other user. We are not "friends". Is that possible?
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Is there a way to find all comments by yourself on a specific users posts on Facebook?
So I have a situation where I am trying to find a particular image another user posted on facebook and I know I commented on this post/image a few times.
It was quite awhile ago and hence going ...
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Search on all possible comments on the Facebook site
I'm looking for Facebook any kind of comment about a certain word.
Is there any efficient way to do a specific word search on all possible comments on the Facebook site?
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Search by age, location, sex and name in Facebook
Is it possible to do a search in Facebook by age, location, sex and name? I can only find the name and location filters in the web UI.
If it's not possible to do that via the web UI, how about API?
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How to search for posts/videos commented on by someone via graph search? [closed]
It seems like the comments search is limited to "photos" for now since queries such as "posts commented on by {name}" or "videos commented on by {name}" simply don't work. Is there an alternative way ...
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Remove Facebook search cache
I was blocked by an ex but they still appear first in the search when I type the first letter of their name. If I click them it will go to their profile for second flash to a not available screen.
I ...
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Can Facebook's Graph Search be used to analyse Facebook friends by gender?
The article here seems to suggest that Facebook's Graph Search is powerful enough to analyse Facebook friends by gender.
I'm aware that using the search term "My friends that are male", for example, ...
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Search for posts by user in private Facebook Group
I would like to view all the posts (and maybe comments) made by a single user in a private Facebook group. Searching by their name does not work because their name is mentioned so often in other ...
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Find Facebook posts liked by friendlist members [closed]
Can I search Facebook for posts that were liked only by members of a friends list that I created?
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Search for sponsored ad campaigns that businesses are running on Facebook
How do you search for sponsored ad campaigns that businesses are running on Facebook?
I would like to search other companies' sponsored campaigns.
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How to search for people given certain details about them?
Facebook got rid of the refine search. So now unless you know someone's full name (as they spell it on Facebook) can you find them? For example I know someone's first name and information about her (...
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how to find a person given more details on Facebook?
They screwed it up again. In Facebook search how do you get the option to enter more details when trying to search for someone or something? For example you want to find "Jane" who lives in "New York" ...
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Searching Facebook for a combination of hashtags
I can search public Facebook posts using a single hashtag with a search such as https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/foo or https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/bar.
But how can I search posts that include ...
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How do I find people name in particular place on Facebook
Is there any way to search a name in particular place ?
For instance :
Searching all people who have alex in their name and living in New York city ?
P.S :
My question is not about my friends. It'...
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How do I search for articles/posts on Facebook?
How do I search for articles/posts on Facebook? I want to search in my friend's timeline but the top navigation search only limits to people, places and things.
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