{{On Tuesday Facebook made headlines with the announcement of its new social search tool called Graph Search, And while Facebook insists that Graph Search is in no way another web-search-engine or a Google copycat, the company clearly intends to make optimum use of all that it knows about you and your friends. }} <\/p>\n
So here’s looking at what Graph Search is all about, along with snapshots from the big launch.<\/p>\n
The tool, which the company calls graph search, is Facebook’s most ambitious stab at overturning the Web search business ruled by its chief rival, Google. <\/p>\n
It is also an effort to elbow aside other web services designed to unearth specific kinds of information, like LinkedIn for jobs, Match for dates and Yelp for restaurants.<\/p>\n
Facebook has spent over a year honing graph search, said Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s co-founder and chief executive, at an event here at Facebook’s headquarters introducing the new product. <\/p>\n
He said it would enable Facebook users to search their social network for people, places, photos and things that interest them.<\/p>\n
That might include, Zuckerberg offered, Mexican restaurants in Palo Alto that his friends have “liked” on Facebook or checked into – though not status updates as yet. It might be used to find a date, a dentist or job, other Facebook executives said.<\/p>\n
“Graph search,” Zuckerberg said, “is a completely new way to get information on Facebook.”<\/p>\n
Graph search will be immediately available to a limited number of Facebook users – in the “thousands,” Zuckerberg said – and gradually extended to the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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