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Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

#11
Privacy, I would guess.

For exemple, you could see that your Tinder match was from X town and liked A, B, F, G, K pages.

You could then go in FB Graph and write "Girls from X who likes A, B, F, G, K pages". This returns two results and you find the girl. Even easier if you knew her first name, you could go "People named Z who likes ... in ... city."

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

#12

Privacy, I would guess. For exemple, you could see that your Tinder match was from X town and liked A, B, F, G, K pages. You could then go in FB Graph and write "Girls from X who likes A, B, F, G, K pages". This returns two results and you find the girl. Even easier if you knew her first name, you could go "People named Z who likes ... in ... city."

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Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

#18
post #15

The graph search was partially powered by Bing in the back end. So when the Microsoft/Facebook partnership ended, most of the search capability you're talking about had to be removed. See (for example): https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/13/facebook-dumps-bing-will-i...

I worked at Bing until 2012 and did some work on the FB integration. While I didn't work on the graph search itself, IIRC that was also provided by MS. I didn't know that the partnership had since ended, though.

Re: Ask HN: What happened to Facebook graph search?

#20

URL/search experiments from 2015, which don't seem to work now: http://booleanblackbelt.com/2015/02/important-facebook-graph...

What do you mean by "doesn't seem to work"? The searches in that article either work for me, or return zero results.

I was a part of the graph search beta, way back when, and live in the US, which is mentioned in another comment as possibly giving me more access.

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