Introducing Graph Search • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by jonmc12 » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:26 PM UTC

Interesting to compare against Path (they announced search on 12/20 - http://www.wired.com/business/2012/12/path-social-archive/):

Path: search personal events; discovery via proximity (nearby)

Facebook: search graph events; discovery via common interest

Seems like facebook trying to hone in on cases like dating (discovering people with common interests), and interest discovery (ie, restaurants that others like). Path seems more about making most of personal time (creating life events) in the context of a social environment.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by thechut » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

monkeyfacebag wrote: post #23

Graph Search seems like strange branding to me. I almost didn't click the link because I thought "Graph Search" was a new API and not a user-facing product (to be fair, the context was a posting on HN so I was predisposed to think API). Graph Search's real focus appears to be on the use of natural language and the presentation of/interaction with data. The "Graph" is almost the least interesting about it.

Is it called that because it is leveraging many feature from the OpenGraph API? Could I accomplish similar things with the API?

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by trendspotter » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #53

This is an important step for Facebook and I'm surprised no one has really mentioned it (all ~50 comments so far are about the graph search). The big thing here isn't graph search, or the fancy searching per se. The big thing here is this: > "and meet new people, too." This is huge. Huge! Facebook from the start was envisioned as a sort-of dating platform but that part of it got swept under the rug real quick. Throug…

So far you can only search entities related to the friends of your friends. A journalist who was at the FB live event said.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by Irregardless » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

Great, now I have even more reason to stop tagging friends, like fewer things, tighten my privacy restrictions, and tell friends to stop tagging me or checking me in to places.

I have no interest in my personal info being used for their search engine, nor do I want friends of friends (i.e. strangers) to contact me just because I like the same TV show or went to their favorite restaurant.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by guptaneil » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:27 PM UTC

For a company that claims to understand the importance of mobile, why are the videos still in Flash? There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have used HTML5 with Flash fallback here.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by seanlinehan » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:28 PM UTC

I may be being a bit of a braggadocio, but the 5-person startup I work for in featured in their blog post announcing the product... pretty unexpected coverage!

http://www.facebook-studio.com/news/item/introducing-graph-s...

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by timrpeterson » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:28 PM UTC

bfd, lame.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by dhirajbajaj » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:29 PM UTC

Social searching is the new business. and with Facebook doing it, it will go miles.Huge!!!

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by seanlinehan » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:29 PM UTC

So Ark, Facebook just Facebooked ya.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by taliesinb » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 7:30 PM UTC

notahacker wrote: post #45

karpathy wrote: post #22

Imo, this is a very smart move if the execution lives up. It gives an incentive to put up even more (structured) information to Facebook, such as Likes/people tags/etc., because now there is a more permanent point to it: it can be discovered by someone much later and become useful and interesting, as opposed to it being interesting merely up to a day on the News Feed and then disappearing forever somewhere deep in yo…

The marketing value of a Facebook like just soared. I feel like a Luddite for it incentivising me to remove stuff from a wall I want to be a place for actually interested friends to check out my photos and not a collection of metadata for marketers

Wouldn't it be neat if there was an "anonymous like" that you could use for the benefit of your friends and yourself, but that would be prevented from being revealed in a way that was traceable directly to you? I.e. differential privacy for the facebook crowd.

For me, the potential negatives of leaving a very precise data shadow for marketers and state actors to remember for all time often outweigh any potential benefits, for a whole range of 'codify yourself' opportunities even outside Facebook (e.g. GoodReads, Amazon Wishlist, YouTube subscriptions, etc).