Facebook Testing New Drop-Down Search Results

Facebook testing a new way for drop down search results. In new one you will see the top results will be appearing in the groups of Peoples, Facebook Pages and Links, as we see in Search results page.

It can help users to get the better experience and faster results on what they are looking for.

= Peoples

= Facebook Pages

= Links

Facebook.com (Without WWW) Is Still Down

As yesterday Facebook went down for near about two and a half hours. And they detailed in a Notes about the down and reasons behind it.



But as from the time Facebook went down if you have gone through Facebook.com (without applying WWW in their domain) or fb.me there shorten URL service both where down.

Have you noticed the site going down (without applying WWW in their domain)?


Update1: facebook.com (without applying WWW in their domain) is not down continually, its coming and going (not stable).

Update2 (4:45 PM IST): It's been two and half hours we have posted this and till now facebook.com (without applying WWW in their domain) is down
Error: This webpage is not available.

Update3 (6:00 PM IST): Now It seems its working fine. If you got any further information we will keep it update.

Facebook's worst outage in over four years

As today Facebook went down for 2 and a half hours. So here what Facebook said about the outage.



Early today Facebook was down or unreachable for many of you for approximately 2.5 hours. This is the worst outage we’ve had in over four years, and we wanted to first of all apologize for it. We also wanted to provide much more technical detail on what happened and share one big lesson learned.

The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition. An automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed.

The intent of the automated system is to check for configuration values that are invalid in the cache and replace them with updated values from the persistent store. This works well for a transient problem with the cache, but it doesn’t work when the persistent store is invalid.

Today we made a change to the persistent copy of a configuration value that was interpreted as invalid. This meant that every single client saw the invalid value and attempted to fix it. Because the fix involves making a query to a cluster of databases, that cluster was quickly overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of queries a second.

To make matters worse, every time a client got an error attempting to query one of the databases it interpreted it as an invalid value, and deleted the corresponding cache key. This meant that even after the original problem had been fixed, the stream of queries continued. As long as the databases failed to service some of the requests, they were causing even more requests to themselves. We had entered a feedback loop that didn’t allow the databases to recover.

The way to stop the feedback cycle was quite painful - we had to stop all traffic to this database cluster, which meant turning off the site. Once the databases had recovered and the root cause had been fixed, we slowly allowed more people back onto the site.

This got the site back up and running today, and for now we’ve turned off the system that attempts to correct configuration values. We’re exploring new designs for this configuration system following design patterns of other systems at Facebook that deal more gracefully with feedback loops and transient spikes.

We apologize again for the site outage, and we want you to know that we take the performance and reliability of Facebook very seriously.

10+ Things To Do When Facebook Goes Down Again

Now a days Facebook acquired the habit of Twitter,So what were we all forced to do for the time when Facebook is down. Here’s a short list:-



1. Reopen that file folder of work that’s on the desk.

2. Actually Listen to the lecturer in front of you.

3. Answer the cell phone

4. Check for new email.

5. Surf to other sites such as Techcrunch.com, FastCompany.com, VentureBeat.com to see what they are saying about Facebook

6. BBMsg a fellow entrepreneur about an article you just saw on VentureBeat.com about Twitter.

7. Tweet. When you can’t get your Facbeook on. Just Tweet it. Just Tweet it.

8. Tweet some more.

9. Worry if your food in Cafe World is burning on the stove.

10. Visit MySpace.com ? Noooooooo!!

11. Stare outside your office or classroom window while clicking refresh until Facebook reappears in your browser.

via Silicon Caribe


If you have any good thing which we can do when Facebook Goes Down then do comment us below.

Facebook's 2nd Down In 30 days

It's been an hour after Facebook went down. And it's the 2nd time in last 30 days .



Update1: It's not the 2nd time Facebook went down. According to ABC news Facebook went down yestrday also, due to Facebook Applications.

Update2: Facebook’s Platform status page says:-
We are currently experiencing latency issues with the API, and we are actively investigating. We will provide an update when either the issue is resolved or we have an ETA for resolution.

Update3: Here’s the statement from Facebook:
We’re currently experiencing some site issues causing Facebook to be slow or unavailable for some users. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

Update4: By the time Facebook is down you can read and do these stuffs, to read Click here.

Update5: Mashable says:
AlertSite notes via e-mail that, “Facebook started experiencing problems at around 2:30 PM EST. Between 2:30 PM EST and 3:30 PM EST Facebook only had 38.46% availability with sky high response times of up to 60 seconds reported from one of our monitoring locations. Over the last hour, AlertSite has recorded errors in all 12 of its monitoring locations throughout the US.”

Update6: Facebook is now seems to be restored and working fine after 2 and a half hours.

Facebook Bought New Way To Increase Members In Like Page

Now a day’s everyone wants their Facebook page have hundreds and thousands of members (fans). As from before there is an option to suggest to all your Facebook friends using Suggest to Friends option at the left column below profile image. But yesterday Facebook rolled out a new way to suggest to friends who is not in your friends list, you can suggest then by importing their E-mail IDs (for admin(s) only).

You can Import Contacts using Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, Palm Desktop, Entourage,

Mac OS X Address Book, LinkedIn and so on. You can also Import contacts login through Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.

And if your friend is not on Facebook it will send an e-mail to your friend to join Facebook and connect with your page.

Facebook Seriously Needs Better Employees

Facebook need some serious batter developers, whether you call this mistakes or bugs. When Facebook reached 500 million users they made a Thanks album in which they took one photo for Facebook India page, but sometimes it happens that while taking group photo all the members were not around for the shoot. So later we use some kind of photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop to add those missing members in the snap. And by seeing the below photo for Facebook India page it looks the same things happened.

But if see the image little closer you will notice that two women who is seem to be standing behind their male colleagues are not real. It’s a bad photo editing work done by Facebook.

Image credit: Digital Inspiration

And you must have notice face recognition feature sometimes you must have show it at the top-right corner in Facebook which I didn’t feel it useful. And it doesn’t matter which way we take it if it won’t work in a proper way. As you can see in the below image

Image credit: All Facebook

So what do you think, do Facebook needs better employees?

The Economic Of FarmVille [Infographic]

Inside look of most famous game in Facebook (FarmVille by Zynga)

via Credit Loan

Have You Notice The Facebook Instant

Near about a week Google launched their new feature called Google Instant and after few hours later a boy who is a student of Stanford University made a YouTube Instant and also got an offer of a job in YouTube from CEO of YouTube via Twitter.

But no one have notice that Facebook also have an Instant Search Feature which everyone uses it daily. The search box on the top of every page in Facebook, you just start typing and you will see the related search results will start appearing with every single characters.

What Your Relationship Status Should Say [Infographic]

In Facebook you can update your relationship status using Info tab in your profile. You can set your relationship status as Single, In a Relationship, Married, It’s Complicated and so on. But as we all know relationship are more complicated than that, so JESS3 came up with an Image which says how facebook relationship status should be.

via Allfacebook

What your relationship status is saying?

Block When Removing Any Application Post

Facebook made a change when we remove any post made through using an application. When we remove any post which we post using any Facebook applications, now it also shows option to block that particular application.

Facebook Making Users To Make Less Spam Request

Facebook added a new security update to stop misuse (spamming) of sending friend request. As many of you play social game on Facebook (like: FarmVille, Mafia Wars and etc), so they (social games) give advantage to their players who have friends playing the same game with you. So it’s not necessary everyone have hundreds of friends playing the same gave (or even playing any game) so people send friend request to unknown people (stranger) who play the certain social games (see in the image).

People are walling on Facebook Like page
so people who play those games can add them

And few people send friend request to advertise or market there blog, website and other stuffs. So Facebook made this update, so people can’t disturb unknown people (especially opposite sex). While you send any friend request to people you might don’t know the popup will show something like this (see in image below).

Even if you try to add people suggested by Facebook, it may happen that you won’t be able to add them also. If you want to add people you must have few mutual friends, you have connected with that person before through messages or you need to send them a message to add you.

Let us know what you think about it...

New pivew for profile info tab

cebook have rolled out a new view of info tab. They made About Me category below Likes and Interests and above Contact me. And few days back Facebook made a like page preview box at left side as same as friends preview box. Seems that Facebook think Likes and Interests are more important than About Me. what do you think about it?