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Graph Search and growing numbers on Google+ are clearly leading us to a social search, a search that yields results our friends would recommend. With the blurring lines between traditional SEO and social media, the future of search is directly related to what it should have targeted all along: you.[read more]

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Is Facebook Graph Search limiting our ability to learn new things? Eli Pariser believes that in personalizing search results, search engines are giving users the results that they want, but not that they need. Personalized results narrow our knowledge base and miss an opportunity to expose users to new and different information, creating “filter bubbles.”[read more]

Social media has always focused on driving engagement with a brand and creating brand advocates. Will the new Facebook Graph Search shift the focus from quality engagement to simply focusing on the quantity of followers? Or will engagement still reign supreme?[read more]

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Facebook took another step toward becoming its own web universe when it launched a search engine for shared content. This move challenges the future relevance of search engines like Google, as well as review sites such as Yelp and Foursquare.[read more]

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Learn everything you need to know about Facebook Graph Search right here in this overview. Understand what Graph Search is, why it's important, how it works, and how you can make it work for you.[read more]

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This is a very important step, not just for Facebook, because it could come to be understood as one of the critical opening skirmishes in the Battle of Big Data. How it plays-out could have enormous implications for the commercial future of many social media properties, including Google.[read more]

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EFF points out that the search can be used by marketers to target advertisements or find out socially awkward facts from your friends. And this discoverability is creepy because it was not easy to do earlier. Nowhere would the information be so easy to find for people, and Facebook users need to re-evaluate their Facebook usage.[read more]

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If you do not think Facebook Graph Search is a big deal, you have not been paying attention to the way data, particularly social data, is changing the world. And if you believe Facebook's move is a threat to Google, you may have no idea how true that is, not in terms of today's search advertising market but Google's strategy for the future.[read more]

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For starters this will eventually play into the Facebook revenue model. Initially this will be an ad free feature, but make no mistake, by further aligning interests with broader behaviors beyond a profile, it will help to further enable personalization as a search and interest overlay and will become an even more accurate tool to re-target relevant ads.[read more]

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Of course, Graph will be most valuable to those who are fully immersed in the service and have friends who do the same — but with Facebook’s 800 million-strong base and the heavy-engagement nature of the service, that’s a hell of a sample size.[read more]

First off, despite some headlines, I don’t think this is a Google killer by any stretch of the imagination, at least in terms of our normal search habits. This isn’t a regular search engine as we know it and Google will still be the search engine of choice for most of us. What it might be, though, is a real threat to some of the underlying framework of Google+...[read more]

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Certainly this is a step forward for Facebook’s search capabilities. Their search engine has lacked even basic user friendliness since its inception. Whether this is an earth-shattering announcement or not is still to be seen. Of course, the product has to come out of beta and get used by the masses before it can be fairly judged. Let’s wait and see.[read more]

Yesterday Facebook announced a new live search engine within the site: 'graph search'. Find out how graph search works, and what are the implications for privacy[read more]

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Wikivoyages launches, when social media backfires, lots about Graph Search, and more.[read more]

Can Facebook, with its huge army of active social users, provide all of the online services that are most relevant to their daily lives? Can they be everything to everybody? Can Facebook (and by implication, Zuck) become the Internet’s Generalist in Chief?[read more]

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With Facebook’s Graph Search announcement today, we may be about to see a shift back to focusing in on page likes. Graph Search is based on discovering people and brands based on the likes of others...[read more]

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 At their headquarters in Menlo Park, Mark Zuckerberg, Lars Rasmussen, and Tom Stocky announced a project they’ve been working on for the past year: Graph Search. Called “one of the three pillars to the Facebook system” (the other two being the news feed and the timeline), Graph Search will give users the ability to search...[read more]

During a highly-anticipated press conference in Menlo Park this morning, Facebook announced the launch of “graph search”, Facebook’s new social search engine. In beta right now, graph search will be different than a typical web search in that graph search is meant to take a search and return an answer – not a set of links like web search.[read more]

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This morning Ellis Hamburger on The Verge asked, "Can Facebook bring the magic back?" Here are 13 steps (pre-Graph Search announcement) that can breath new inspiration into Facebook's ecosystem of users, developers and marketers while gaining investor trust.[read more]