dp smile mosaic final 7 blkThey nailed it. FriendFeed just made available massive amounts of micro-blog information ready for mass consumption and — promiscuous correlation. No stone left unturned.

Recent upgrades on their advanced search now provide Google-istic operators that make sifting through millions of mini-articles a walk in the park — ultimately getting users closer to the data they’re really after.

FriendFeed had this to say on their blog:

We’ve made some improvements to our search functionality. Searching is now faster and more reliable, and we added a number of useful advanced search features. You can:

Search for words only in entry titles or in comments
[intitle:superbowl] – entries that mention “Superbowl” in the title
Search for only entries that were liked or commented on by specific friends [like:bret football] – entries about football that Bret has liked
Search for entries with a minimum number of likes or comments [comments:5 friendfeed] – entries that mention FriendFeed with at least 5 comments
Exclude terms from your search [jobs -steve] – entries about the job market, not the CEO of Apple

The above examples are just a small slice of FriendFeed’s new Twitter-killer search capacity. Strung together, their search operators can amp up some serious insight into what a user is doing.

Want to follow your friends and their travels around town [scary!] — you can. Want to look for messages with umpteen comments — indicative of a trend or hot news — you can.

A robust search feature is a must for any website with participation of the magnitude FriendFeed sees. Google makes their living on search. Shouldn’t all websites follow FriendFeed and Google’s lead.

And by the way Twitter, what are you waiting for?