With the introduction of its Graph Search feature, Facebook is trying to turn the vast store of data about relationships between people, places, and things into something useful for its users: a ...

Facebook in January trumpeted Graph Search as the social network’s “third pillar” (pillars one and two are Timeline and News Feed), which sounds very impressive and important, but few people have been ...

Facebook shook the tech world’s foundation a bit with the announcement of Graph Search capability. Users are anxious for a chance to play with the new feature, and attackers are looking forward to ...

In its most basic state, Facebook's nascent Graph Search is a structured search engine for finding people, places, photos, and interests on Facebook. But the third-pillar product, which surfaces ...

Facebook’s Graph Search doesn’t have the data and parsing capability yet to perform more granular and useful searches. In the example above, Graph Search automatically reforms queries to what it can ...

Of all Facebook’s data sets, it’s the social graph that’s truly unique. It’s spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it’s sick of handing over your friend list to ...

Facebook continues to pull back the curtain on some of the technical details behind its search products, this time with a new look at the Social Graph. See also: Understanding Unicorn: A deep dive ...

Fact: Microsoft is an investor in Facebook. Fact: Bing powers Web search functionality on Facebook (and has since 2010). Fact: Microsoft makes use of Facebook data to power its own Bing social search.

At Facebook’s f8 developer conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the Open Graph. Described as a whole new class of apps, Open Graph will allow Facebook users to add activities to their ...