Thursday, 17 January 2013

FACEBOOK INTRODUCES GRAPH SEARCH TO FACILITATE USERS IN SEARCHING FRIENDS IN THEIR CITY

Finally the curtain is removed from the Facebook conference event. A lot of predictions and calculations were done from tech experts related to the launch of Facebook phone in the event while some expected the launch of Facebook search engine. However, Facebook full stopped all those forecasts and introduced an important tool for its users called Facebook graph search. Facebook now has three strong pillars according its founder, Mark Zuckerberg and they are news feed, timeline and newly launched graph search.

What is graph search?
Graph search is a tool with which users will be able to search a specific person, place or photo or the things of their interests much easily. In addition to this, graph search will also provide information related to the places you visited and the restaurants you hanged out in to your friends. However, Mark Zuckerberg made this point very clear in the beginning of the presentation itself that this graph search is not a search engine of nay type. This tool won’t be giving you the most logical result along with the link. This will only show you the places and things which are been shared by your friends.

Facebook Graph Search
Facebook Graph Search


What will you be able to search?
Facebook graph search is in its beta stage at present. Its mobile version is yet to come. With the active help of this tool you will be able to search photos, people, things, places and their habits and hobbies as of now. For instance, if you are looking for the hobbies of a person who lives in your city, graph search will provide you with suitable results.

Facebook Graph Search
Facebook's new feature

Privacy is well taken care
Zuckerberg in addition made the point very clear that graph search won’t interfere with any person’s privacy anytime. The information which you have intended to share with your friends and colleagues intuitively will only be shown by the tool. You are given the full freedom of keeping your personal photo, update or link within the ‘only me’ privacy setting.

Refine this search
An option of refine this search is also provided in the graph search tool which would be visible in the side. This option would further refine and improve our search.

 Friends of friends
This is an additional connection for dating purpose. This will help in refining your search related to friends of friends.

How graph search will look like?
Graph search will be visible like a big search bar on the topmost portion of the Facebook page. But you need to be logged in into your account to see it. When you will search anything on Facebook, you will be provided with a definite result along with the title of the concerned page. Users are also provided with the full freedom of changing the title of their page and customizing the view according to their choice. Whoever this customized view can be created only with the things you want to share!

This is all that was been announced in the event. It would be interesting to see the response of the users in response to this update!

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