Popular social networking site Facebook has unveiled a new feature – Graph Search – to allow users refine queries on people, photos or places and to make it easier to find content on the site.
Meant for uncovering information in your Facebook network, Graph Search can be used to search for something simple like ‘Photos of my friends,’ or something more complex like ‘Photos of my friends before 1990 uploaded by my mom.’
The service is in beta now, with only a few hundred people gaining access on Tuesday.
Facebook will be using results from those initial users to help tweak the service, before it pushes it out to the whole of the Facebook community.
If it catches on with users, the tool, could challenge a range of other internet companies, from arch-rival Google to ratings services like Yelp, and even video streaming sites such as Netflix.
Graph Search offers a different experience than the kind of Web searches enabled by Google, which can be open-ended and return a range of links, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press conference at the company’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
The new feature, at first, will take more precise queries related to four topics people, places, photos, and interestsand return answers that are constrained by the content and preferences specified by the searcher’s community on the social network.’We are not indexing the Web,’ Zuckerberg said. ‘We are indexing our map of the [social] graph’. Users can navigate through the 240 billion photos on the network, the trillions of user ‘likes,’ and connections between users.
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Meant for uncovering information in your Facebook network, Graph Search can be used to search for something simple like ‘Photos of my friends,’ or something more complex like ‘Photos of my friends before 1990 uploaded by my mom.’
The service is in beta now, with only a few hundred people gaining access on Tuesday.
Facebook will be using results from those initial users to help tweak the service, before it pushes it out to the whole of the Facebook community.
If it catches on with users, the tool, could challenge a range of other internet companies, from arch-rival Google to ratings services like Yelp, and even video streaming sites such as Netflix.
Graph Search offers a different experience than the kind of Web searches enabled by Google, which can be open-ended and return a range of links, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press conference at the company’s new headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
The new feature, at first, will take more precise queries related to four topics people, places, photos, and interestsand return answers that are constrained by the content and preferences specified by the searcher’s community on the social network.’We are not indexing the Web,’ Zuckerberg said. ‘We are indexing our map of the [social] graph’. Users can navigate through the 240 billion photos on the network, the trillions of user ‘likes,’ and connections between users.
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