Today Facebook officially launched a product that they have reportedly been working on for a long time. This new product could help propel them into becoming more of a social search engine. “Facebook Questions” was released to the public today. It will allow you to ask any questions from either your home page or profile page. These questions may include a photo or poll as well.

Once a question is asked, it is visible to all Facebook users. Answers to these question will be a mixed response from your friends, their friends, and complete strangers. When asking a new question, you will have the ability to tag it with relevant key words/phrases. This will easily allow other people to find questions that are relevant to them.

Users will also be presented with questions based on their Facebook “likes”. For example, if you have “liked” Justin Bieber, than you will be asked to answer questions related to him. This helps question get answered as quickly as possible by those who are knowledgeable in that field. If you ask a question that Doctors would probably know the answer too, than it will be doctors who that question will be asked to.

Another feature that Facebook has included is the ability to follow certain questions. This will allow you to receive updates every time a new answer is submitted for that question.

Facebook Questions is currently in beta testing, so only a select few members have access to it yet. To see if you have access, simply visit: http://www.facebook.com/questions.