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Search has become an integral part of using the Internet. It’s the way we find the info we need — whether that’s a business address, a person’s contact info, or the year of the great San Francisco earthquake. Facebook’s search is also important, though it works a bit differently than a search engine such as Google or Bing.

Most of the time, you will use Search to hop quickly to a friend’s timeline or to check out a Page you follow. Simply start typing your friend’s name in the search box in the blue bar at the top of the screen. Facebook displays an autocomplete list as you type, showing possible matches as you add more and more letters. When you see the name of the person you're looking for, click it or the picture to go to the person's timeline.

Even though the simplest use of Search is what you’ll use most of the time, it’s worth noting that Facebook has an incredible database of information that you can search through at any time. You can search through friends’ posts, photos, and videos simply by entering a search term in the search box. Given the amount of information you might see in your News Feed on any given day, it can be helpful to search to find that one piece of information you're looking for. (You may know someone posted a link to the best place to pick apples in the fall, but you can’t remember when.) The search results page allows you to filter for the latest results, or to look at any of nine categories: posts, people, photos, videos, marketplace, Pages, places, groups, and events.