Introducing Graph Search • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by fudged71 » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 5:42 AM UTC

DannyBee wrote: post #6

nkwiatek wrote: post #4

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"People who live in Palo Alto who like Sushi who aren't my Grandma " It's the future

ITYM "People who live in Palo Alto who like Sushi who aren't my Grandma or my one friend bob who has horrible taste or oh crap that one guy fred who i accidentally friended or ..." I don't know anyone who has a very clean social graph that they can formulate sane preference queries about.

You're not querying the data to get one answer. You're harnessing existing data to narrow down hundreds of friends into a handful.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by fudged71 » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 5:44 AM UTC

mark_l_watson wrote: post #236

sonier wrote: post #229

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Interesting, I wonder how many people would start using this as there only search engine.

That is FB's plan :-) Not a bad idea. Perform a search, highest ranked results are for friend's content, then fall through to Bing results. The Bing search API (from Azure marketplace) which I use from Clojure and Ruby applications yields good results and since Google no longer offers search APIs, Microsoft gets that business.

Exactly. The less people are reliant on Google, the less power the entire Google+ model has to survive.

On year from now, trying to convince someone to use Google+: "But it's accessible from the google homepage!" "I don't google anymore, I just search facebook"

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by fudged71 » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 5:46 AM UTC

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…

"What music did my dad listen to when he was my age?" BOOM.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by ibrahima » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 5:58 AM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #243

ibrahima wrote: post #239

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Honestly, I consider myself extremely introverted, and I do all those things to avoid talking to people, but I kind of wish I didn't. I actually like random people talking to me about random things.

Maybe you're not really that introvert, only a little shy? (yes, I think there's a difference :)

I am definitely extremely shy (in person), but I think I'm also very introverted but wish I wasn't.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by ibrahima » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 5:58 AM UTC

gizzlon wrote: post #243

ibrahima wrote: post #239

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Honestly, I consider myself extremely introverted, and I do all those things to avoid talking to people, but I kind of wish I didn't. I actually like random people talking to me about random things.

Maybe you're not really that introvert, only a little shy? (yes, I think there's a difference :)

I am definitely extremely shy (in person), but I think I'm also very introverted but wish I wasn't.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by businessleads » Fri, Jan 18, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

fudged71 wrote: post #260

businessleads wrote: post #148

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Our startup is very excited about this part, since we let people earn bounties based on the intelligent connections they can make between people they know and a business offering a particular service or deal. We are curious whether it will be open enough for us to suggest or run searches for an authenticated user to suggest who they should share a particular offer with.

That's a fantastic idea!

Thank you!