Well we started typing, and no matter how fast we typed, they already had results showing up. If we typed faster than Facebook autocomplete then it had to be okay. I thought, “Maybe I just type really fast, faster than the results can load.” We then checked Facebook. If we typed fast, we could type faster than the results would show up. We were working on our autocomplete search for the website we are building this summer called and we were wondering why our autocomplete was so slow. You can disable it temporarily by going to Account Settings/Security/Secure Browsing.) How We Discovered this Link (Note: If you have https on, it won’t work. If bookmarklet does not work on chrome, just try creating a new bookmark with the javascript as the url. Try dragging this link if the image doesn’t work for you. Note: This is really interesting, but may be embarrassing to you. Then go to Facebook and click the bookmarklet. To try it out, just drag the image here up to your browser’s bookmark bar. The more negative the number, the more Facebook thinks you are looking for them. Although you already know who you look at most, it is eerie to see the list they have come up with-and the numbers they give. I wrote a bookmarklet that makes it easy to see this list. Well Facebook gives explicit numbers to the directed edges (connection going from you to your friend), about how much they think you are looking for this person. I can only guess, but it seems like they order it based on who you interact with, whose profile you look at and who you have recently become friends with. Have you ever wondered how Facebook orders your search results? Clearly they have some ordering about who they think you are looking for, and they seem to guess pretty well. Drag this link to your bookmarks bar and click it when you are on Facebook. I have updated it to work on the new filename Facebook is using, and also to match the protocol you are browsing on. UPDATE February 14, 2012: Many people have noted that Facebook has changed stuff in the last several months and so the bookmarklet broke. You can get the new bookmarklet here Updated Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet to Work with Graph Search I have made an update to fix the bookmarklet for those with Facebook Graph Search. UPDATE March 28, 2013: Many people have commented here and emailed me that it no longer works for you.
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