Created in 2007, the Profile Engine calls itself the "world's first social network search engine". For many years, it scraped public information from Facebook and made it searchable on its own site, until Facebook blocked its access to its servers in 2011.
And Google has the potential to have a far greater collection of materials, given its program to copy digitally much of the collections of five major research libraries and make that content searchable on its site.
If Facebook is serious about search, it needs to make basically everything that gets updated on the site (allowed for by individual's privacy settings, of course) searchable on its mobile app in real-time.
7. Finally, FAO released a new web page on organic agriculture in July 2000, which includes information on its activities and a searchable database of documents, as well as links to external web sites that offer information on organic agriculture.
Some of this data is already available, but it has been brought together on one searchable website.
One clue to AIDS burials comes from the Hart Island burial records, which the Department of Correction began making public in 2013 as a searchable list on its website.
And 6,000 elementary school teachers in Los Angeles have found themselves under scrutiny this summer after The Los Angeles Times published a series of articles about their performance, including a searchable database on its Web site that rates them from least effective to most effective.
At the root of the problem is the fact that not all the charities that PayPal features on its Giving platform, and makes searchable through its database, are actually set up to receive donations through PayPal.
GenBank - On-line searchable database for all known DNA sequences.
New revenue stream: a percentage of additional revenue its customers generate by running ads on newly searchable pages.
