Facebook Graph Search is an amazing feature with a terrible name. It takes the massive, inordinate amount of personal information and experiences you’ve charted over the years, and pulls them up with a few keystrokes. Watch it in action. More »
We know you Facebook users are probably going crazy learning all about your personal social network with their newly announced Graph Search, but we have some additional Facebook news we’d like to share with you if you’re not too busy searching for friends who love Grumpy Cat.
If you’ve used Graph Search yet, you’ll know the service doesn’t just pull information from your personal social network, but it also throws in some web search results in the process. And what search giant has Facebook partnered up with to provide such a service to its users? Why, Bing of course!
Bing will be able to pull data from the web to show in your Graph Search results like current weather conditions, which we’re sure those of you without windows would be very impressed with. Results that are shown from Bing will be tagged as “Web” just so you’ll know the information was gathered from outside of Facebook. Hopefully this partnership won’t result in private data from Facebook making its way to Bing “accidentally” one day.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook Graph Search: A Great Strategic Move, Facebook Graph Search In Limited Beta; Here’s How To Sign Up For It, 
Facebook’s big announcement today was Graph Search. It’s a deeply important step for Facebook. But it’s also kind of unlike other search systems out there, and adds a bunch of new ways to use Facebook. Here’s how it works. More »
The system known as Graph Search is Facebook’s way of allowing you to search through the massive amount of connections that exist between you and your friends. This search system is in Beta mode when the article you’re reading now is being published, but it’ll be in full swing by the Spring or Summer of 2013. This release is a relatively important addition to the Facebook ecosystem because before now, only the titles of people, places, and things could be searched – and photos were all but buried hopelessly under piles of galleries with no search connections at all.
The Facebook Graph Search bar will be appearing (or already exists) at the top of your Facebook page and works with instant suggestions based on what you type. You can search for people, photos, places, and interests – that’s what Facebook suggests – but your imagination can run wild with keywords. Example searches include the following:
• Photos of my friends in Minnesota
• People who like SlashGear and live nearby
• Tourist attractions in England visited by my friends
• Photos before 2005
• Italian restaurants in Montana my friends have liked
• My Friends who work at SlashGear
Those of you who just started using Facebook in the last few years – or even the last few days – probably have been frustrated that there’s not a single search bar that’s been able to do what Graph Search is suggesting here this week. With such a massive treasure trove of information in Facebook, it was only a matter of time before the developers on Facebook’s team revealed something such as this.
You’ll be able to use this tool to discover restaurants – search for restaurants in your area that your friends have liked (or have just been to). Use this tool to find friends who may want to go cycling with you in the Spring (friends of friends or friends you never knew liked their bike!) If you’re heading to a new city you’ve never been to before, search for photos of your friends in that city and ask those friends for advice on what to see!
This is an exploration tool as Facebook presents it. We’ll have to see later this year what it’ll become in the hands of the public.
Your privacy in all of this remains the same, or so Facebook notes – this being true so far as your privacy settings are still in place, and nothing you’ve made private is able to be searched for or seen. If you’d rather not have someone realizing you’ve been to Italy 20 times over the course of 10 years and are only able to hide this fact due to the difficulty someone would have putting together all your albums at once before Graph Search exists, you might want to do something about it.
Facebook took the time (above) to show you how Privacy works with Graph Search, publishing the video you see here before the special event revealing Graph Search was even complete. Make sure you watch the whole thing and put your mind at ease! For those of you that want to go through your history piece by piece to take out the old connections you’re not proud of or otherwise want to destroy, hit up your [Activity Log] and chop away!
At the time of this article’s publishing, there’s a website at http://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch where you can hit a button that’ll add you to a waiting list. This waiting list will be addressed person by person, giving each of them an invite to Graph Search beta. Zuckerberg himself noted that the service would be rolled out to users over the coming weeks and months at a speed relative to the interest they see in its use and any problems they encounter as it rolls out.
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SlashGear 101: What is Facebook Graph Search? is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook just introduced its newest feature, Graph Search, where you’re provided with specific, catered searches of friends on Facebook and their respective interests and likes. However, CEO Mark Zuckerberg just pulled a “one more thing” trick on us and announced that Facebook is partnering up with Bing to bring web search results to Graph Search.
Zuckerberg already described the difference between Facebook’s Graph Search and traditional web search, noting that the two are completely different as far as what kind of results appear, but to cover all bases, Facebook is partnering up with Microsoft’s Bing, which will provide web search results for search queries that aren’t in Graph Search.
Essentially, the Bing partnership will allow Facebook to slightly jump into the web search realm without fully committing itself. So, for queries about the local weather, users will get relevant results in Graph Search thanks to Bing. Zuckerberg says he doesn’t see Facebook as an exclusive web search tool for users, but the company wants to “provide good search results in Graph Search.”
The beta version of Graph Search is rolling out today, and it’ll start slow. Then, as more info is indexed, the feature will roll out more widely and quickly. As of right now, there’s no word on how slowly or quickly the beta will roll out — execs say that it all depends how well the beta program is going. For now, there don’t seem to be any plans for an API, but Zuckerberg didn’t completely rule it out.
Facebook partners up with Bing to provide search results in Graph Search is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Social media giant Facebook just announced that its new Graph Search tool will also incorporate results from the wider web thanks to a partnership with Microsoft and Bing. Obviously, people won’t flock to Graph Search if it’s capabilities are limited to where your friends live and the restaurants they like. Zuckerberg and crew will have to provide some way to find information that Facebook simply can’t provide (for now…). That’s where Bing comes in, with its ability to pull data like current weather conditions — something your old frat buddies are probably useless to provide. This is hardly the first time Redmond has gotten cozy with Facebook. The social network is integrated rather closely with the search engine and Bing has been providing web search results on Facebook for sometime. Now there’es just less of a wall between the two when looking at results. With Graph Search, Bing results are put front and center, with some social context. For a bit more information from Microsoft’s perspective hit up the more coverage link.
Facebook’s Graph Search landing page is live now at Facebook.com/graphsearch. Unfortunately, this is not actually the live product but just an explainer. To get on the waiting list, head over to the page, scroll all the way to the bottom and click the “Join Waiting List” button. Facebook will notify you when it’s your turn. More »
Facebook’s event which was teased last week as their “See What We’re Building” event is going on right now, and we’re live blogging it, but one piece of news was just announced that we just couldn’t hold back from sharing with you. Facebook has just announced its Graph Search service.
Facebook’s Graph Search was created as a way for its users to receive answers to questions directly within Facebook, as opposed to a web search which will provide the answer through an external link. Questions like “Who are my friends in San Francisco?” can be revealed by using Facebook’s Graph Search.
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Facebook’s event which was teased last week as their “See What We’re Building” event is going on right now, and we’re live blogging it, but one piece of news was just announced that we just couldn’t hold back from sharing with you. Facebook has just announced its Graph Search service.
Facebook’s Graph Search was created as a way for its users to receive answers to questions directly within Facebook, as opposed to a web search which will provide the answer through an external link. Questions like “Who are my friends in San Francisco?” can be revealed by using Facebook’s Graph Search.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New MySpace Launches Together With Justin Timberlake’s New Single, China Had 51 Million New Internet Users Last Year,
Remember Facebook’s “come and see what we’re building” event? Yeah, that’s today. And the first thing that CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled was a new feature called Graph Search. It essentially will give people the power and tools to take a cut of the graph to form any query they want. However, Zuckerberg was adamant that Graph Search was not the same thing as traditional web search.
Currently, there are 1 billion people, 240 billion photos, and 1 trillion connections in the Social Graph, and indexing all that content to make it easily searchable is obviously quite a challenge. Zuckerberg says that most of the content on Facebook isn’t public, so users want a way to search for things that have been shared with them. This is where Graph Search comes into play.
Plus, Graph Search will be “privacy aware”, and the platform was built with privacy in mind. Currently, 10% of Facebook’s computing power is spent on privacy, and we’re guessing that will only increase once Graph Search goes live. The biggest difference that Zuckerberg mentions between Graph Search and general web search is that web search just searches for anything and everything related to the search term, while Graph Search is very specific and catered towards the user.
Graph Search is meant to answer very specific questions, like “Who are my friends in Chicago?”, and you can search for other things, like the music your friends listen to, restaurants your friends like, or the movies and TV shows your friends enjoy watching. You can also combine searches, like “friends who live in Chicago and like Breaking Bad.”
In the end, Graph Search is essentially a very-specific way of searching that involves the people who you’re connected with on Facebook, and makes it easy to find friends who share similar interests as you do. The new tool will even let you find a friend of a friend that you met at a party, and Graph Search will let you connect with them right away.
Zuckerberg describes difference between Graph Search and Web Search is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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