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Now that the Facebook Graph Search dust has settled and you know as much about the service as we do and are completely fine with Bing being integrated into the experience, you’re probably wondering how exactly you can start experiencing it. You’re in luck as Facebook launched Graph Search as a beta, which you could sign up for right now.

Facebook Graph Search is currently available in a “limited beta,” but if you’d like to be added to the waiting list, you can visit the following web page, scroll down and click on “Join Waiting List.” Through that magical process of scrolling and clicking, you’ve now been added to the waiting list to use Graph Search, you lucky devil, you.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook Graph Search: A Great Strategic Move, Facebook Taps Bing To Provide Graph Search Web Results,

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 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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By Ubergizmo. Related articles: New MySpace Launches Together With Justin Timberlake’s New Single, China Had 51 Million New Internet Users Last Year,

China is home to more than 1.2 billion people, roughly 19 percent of the world’s overall population. But it looks like the “sleeping dragon” is on the verge of dominating the online world as well. According to a data released by the China Internet Network Information Center, around 51 million new Internet users were added to its stats last year, bringing the overall number of Internet users to 564 million, a 10 percent growth, so to speak. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Facebook Taps Bing To Provide Graph Search Web Results, Facebook Graph Search Is a Personalized Social Search Engine Launching Today,

It really should come as no surprise that internet usage is continually on the rise around the world, but some countries are seeing a steeper increase than others. China, for example, has seen an increase of 51 million new internet users in 2012 alone, up 10% from 2011. The country now has around 564 million web users total.

Despite continued efforts to monitor users and restrict access to certain types of content, these substantial gains were apparently driven by mobile internet access, with the number of Chinese users logging in from phones and tablets rising by 18.1% to a total of 420 million users, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CINIC).

To give you an idea of how substantial 51 million people is, that’s roughly equal to the entire population of Spain, or nearly half the population of Japan. The rise in Chinese internet users has boosted the country’s penetration rate by 3.8% since the end of 2011, reaching a total of 42.1%

The report also states that while internet cafes have begun to dip in popularity, desktop computer use also fell by nearly 3% in 2012, and laptop use dropped to 45.9%. Mobile use, however, has increased from 69.3% to 74.5%. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology estimates that China’s internet population will reach roughly 800 million users by 2015.

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China adds 51 million internet users in 2012 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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