Facebook Search is a two part technical manual for power searchers. It explores the queries and methods used by investigators, journalists, researchers, and recruiters to dig deep into the world’s largest social database. These techniques emphasize Graph Search and Keyword Search methods used by the author who has led complex online investigations for over 20 years.

Posts, Photos & Videos are the foundation of day-to-day communications on Facebook and the focus of this book. Facebook Search: Part II covers everything you need to know to find Posts, Photos, and Videos on Facebook and their connections with People, Places, and Pages including Employers, Schools, Cities of Residence, and more.

Complete with diagrams, flow charts, and practical exercises, this book introduces techniques for finding People and their content. Readers learn the basic query language used by the search engine to receive and process search requests, using content as a means to find People via their demographic details like Age, Residence, and Employer, as well as content by specific Users. The reader is also introduced to search techniques that tap into Facebook categories and artificial intelligence to find content by Topics, Viewpoints, and sources like News Media and Celebrities. It’s a clear, extendable language entered directly into the address bar as a Graph Search or Keyword Search URL.

Some of the queries discussed in this book have not been published before.

This hands-on guide is an essential reference with over 350 pages covering:How Content is Posted and EditedHow to Find Meta Data and Post DatesHow to Find Content by Date, Keyword, Tag & TopicAuthoritative and Commentary Viewpoint SearchReal-Time News and Live Video SearchSearching Content by Location Finding Content by Profile Data like Age and ResidenceFlow Charts for Creating Search RequestsResource Section with Search URLs for