I can\'t seem to find the definitive word out there of the facebook search api: the api that allows you to search public status updates and comments/posts (there is a web in
You can use the Facebook graph API :
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/
look for the searching section,
QUOTE from fb:
Searching
You can search over all public objects in the social graph with https://graph.facebook.com/search. The format is:
https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=QUERY&type=OBJECT_TYPE We support search for the following types of objects:
All public posts: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post
You can also search an individual user's News Feed, restricted to that user's friends, by adding a q argument to the home connection URL: