Photos and the news feed are where people spend their time on Facebook. Yet its last two big products were relatively niche features, Timeline and the new Graph Search. Facebook today published examples of how to use Graph Search, which merely highlight that it’s not part of day-to-day life. Yes, Facebook needed to fix search, but it may have prioritized an intellectual wank over user experience. → Read More
Editor’s note: Taylor Buley is a senior developer at Conde Nast’s PARADE. He’s a former staff writer at Forbes and graduated from University of Pennsylvania and Stanford.
On Thursday Lars Rasmussen, Google Maps co-inventor turned Facebook Graph Search guru, took to Reddit for an “ask me anything” open thread. The Danish native avoided questions about the competitive landscape for Graph Search… → Read More
Editor’s note: Tareq Ismail is the UX lead at Maluuba, a personal assistant app for Android and Windows Phone that was a Battlefield participant at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012.
The release of Facebook’s Graph Search has raised much discussion among technology pundits and investors. One of the biggest questions surrounding the highly anticipated feature is its availability on mobile. → Read More
Omg, Facebook Graph Search has exposed my private photos! This kind of email has been rolling into TechCrunch’s tip line since the introduction of the new, and still beta, search service from Facebook. The reveals are somewhat tantalizing – Mark Zuckerberg and a baby dressed like a monkey! Matt Burns in a Star Trek costume! Eric Eldon flipping the bird! (Yes, we’ve been having fun with this… → Read More
Editor’s Note: Brian Bowman is founder and CEO of LikeIt.com, a fun way to discover people, places, and things.
The responsibility of dating sites should be to facilitate great first dates. Unfortunately, the dating industry has chosen to protect its charge-to-communicate business model instead of give consumers access to information to make an educated decision about a potential date: Is my… → Read More
Well, that didn’t take long. Facebook Graph Search is now its own Tumblr meme: “Actual Facebook Graph Searches.” The site dials up the social media rubbernecking-slash-privacy outrage to a whole new level: user submissions. It’s like that Gizmodo post was turned into an entire blog, edited by everyone. The blog is now blowing up on Hacker News. It’s getting tweeted. The site’s creator says… → Read More
Facebook’s newest feature Graph Search — a tool which lets users datamine their friends’ and strangers’ photos and interests — merely adds to the site’s stalkerish reputation. Sharing anything on Facebook now carries an even bigger risk of over-sharing, and should make users think long and hard about every little thing they contribute to its data banks. → Read More
No one knew it yet, but people all over the world gave Graph Search a hearty meal when they uploaded a record 1.1 billion photos during the 48 hours over News Year’s Day and Eve. That’s nearly double the 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook on an average day. Content upload stats from Facebook take on new meaning now that Graph Search makes everything shared more discoverable. → Read More
The subtle impact of Facebook Graph Search is that when you share openly, you share for the benefit of mankind. And when you don’t, or share to just a few people, you’re robbing the world of your knowledge, recommendations, and content. The question for each of us now is whether we prioritize our contribution or our privacy. → Read More
Great, Facebook launched something called Graph Search. But how does it actually help you? From content discovery to finding a restaurant, from recruiting to dating to a trip down memory lane, here’s what you can do with Graph Search. First, check out this quick hands-on video intro. Then let’s look at when Graph Search could work better than Google, Yelp, and LinkedIn, plus offer answers they… → Read More
Many of you are probably presented with the same problem when logging into Facebook. The first thing that you see is your News Feed, with tons of content from your friends and pages that you like. Unless you sort your News Feed by recent, which isn’t always accurate, you have no idea what to look at first. This is a problem for Facebook, because you will probably interact with less content… → Read More
Facebook just took a big bite out of Google. Today, the social network announced Graph Search, a new feature that lets you search the interests, location, and preferences of your friends.
For anyone who uses the Internet to search restaurant recommendations, travel advice, books to read on vacation, or which political candidates to vote for, Facebook may have replaced Google as the best search… → Read More
Where there’s discovery, there’s opportunity for sponsored discovery. Though there are no ads in Facebook’s new Graph Search engine yet, eventually Facebook could let advertisers pay to show their results above organic ones like on Google. CEO Mark Zuckerberg stressed “You build a good business by building something people want”, but said Facebook’s typeahead search ads “extend quite nicely to… → Read More
Facebook launched Graph Search today, its own version of a private, personalized social search engine. It’s somewhat of a competitor to Google’s “Search Plus Your World” – Google’s more recent take on blending personal data with that of the greater web. Although Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was careful to frame it as not being a web search product, that statement was not entirely accurate. It is… → Read More
Earlier today, Facebook unveiled its third pillar, graph search. While the announcement was highly anticipated, the unveiling didn’t live up to the hype from the investors’ perspective, as the stock (NASDAQ:FB) is currently down 3.23 percent at 29.95 –below $30 again. → Read More
Facebook this morning unveiled a massive new product called “Graph Search” at a press event at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. While the impact of this debut will be settling in for a while, one thing seems clear from an early demo of the product: Thanks to Graph Search, Facebook is about to be much, much better for finding places such as restaurants, cafes, bars, and the like. → Read More
Mark Zuckerberg put the ball in Google’s court today at Facebook’s big Graph Search launch, saying “I would love to work with Google.” For now, though, Facebook hands off queries its Graph Search can’t answer to its internal Bing-powered web search engine. If relations with Google thaw out, it seems Facebook might look to integrate some of Google’s data. → Read More
When Facebook unveiled its new Graph Search function earlier today, it also unveiled the two people who spearheaded the new “third pillar” of Facebook: Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, two heavy-hitters that Facebook hired away from the world’s current search leader, Google, over the last couple of years. → Read More
Facebook this morning unveiled “Graph Search,” a new search tool for finding people, photos, places and interests in a way that the social networking giant was very careful to point out is very different from web search.
But, nearing the end of the press conference held at Facebook headquarters this morning, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quick to point out “one more thing”: Facebook has… → Read More
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