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Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by yonasb »

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…

Great observation. When I clicked "Try a search" it pulled up people I am friends with who live in my city, but as I scrolled down I saw people I am not friends with included as well. Seems like the next logical step.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by Leynos »

bulltale wrote: post #133
Irregardless wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't control your friends' privacy settings. If they tag you in something and have their own privacy settings wide open, anyone will be able to see it.

From what I recall you can stop friends from tagging you in photos on FB.

You can make tag approval mandatory, but people can still tag you and you will be bombarded with spam about that tag until you remove it.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by dgregd »

gfodor wrote: post #120

They're going to have the same problem wolfram alpha has, since in the space of "all queries" only a tiny, tiny fraction of them are going to be ones that Facebook can resolve. Now, it might be less of a practical problem since the use cases for FB search are pretty clear and obvious, unlike W|A. But it doesn't sound like this is an open-ended search engine. Imagine typing say "shoes for sale on amazon" and getting "…

> tiny fraction of them are going to be ones that Facebook can resolve

maybe the rest they are going to forward/proxy to Bing.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by khmel »

FB search as it is not capable to become kickass end-user-oriented product yet, it's more like a set of technologies that could be used by app developers to create cool dating\hiring\recommendation services and widgets using real-time api requests. The best apps will be acquired by Fb or just copied :)

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by businessleads »

yonasb wrote: post #141
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…

Great observation. When I clicked "Try a search" it pulled up people I am friends with who live in my city, but as I scrolled down I saw people I am not friends with included as well. Seems like the next logical step.

Uh. Hi. Facebook seems to think we should date. Wanna go out sometime?

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by beatpanda »

"Everyone on Facebook who isn't blocked by you can search for you, but what they can see in search results about you depends on what's shared with them.

Search results respect your privacy settings, whether it's info you’ve shared, or posts with tags of you that others have shared."

My Facebook profile is currently set to not be visible in search, because I don't want people who I didn't explicitly give my Facebook link to be able to find me. Will Facebook continue to respect this setting?

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by businessleads »

alaskamiller wrote: post #21

This is pretty futuristic, it's SQL for non-techies that pulls from Facebook data. The most inquisitive, but not enough to be a programmer and deal with FQL and code, will find this really useful since they can finally make use of all the objects they've acted upon and entities they've acted with. It makes Facebook data actually... purposeful. The next step is still to match purpose with intent to make that money.

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.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by ya3r »

Two things:

- "The interface fundamentally determines the behavior" and this thing has a real great interface. I just don't see how this could be integrated into the facebook home screen (newsfeed).

- I wonder how long does it take google to copycat this thing.

Re: Introducing Graph Search

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Post by businessleads »

taliesinb wrote: post #70
notahacker wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bene…

"Anonymous like" #featuresyouwillnevereversee
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