Yes, I was one of those who waited eagerly to find out about Facebook’s new offering. With the news conference scheduled, the IRM (Internet Rumor Mills) were fully stocked with guesses.
Paid messaging? New layout? The Facebook Phone? Zucks telling us to back off of posting his sister’s pictures on social networks?
Since the (almost) fiscal cliff, nothing has been this riveting (outside of the return of NCIS). So what did Mark Z have up his sleeve? A shot across the bow at Google.
Welcome to Graph Search
Graph Search takes the current puny search functionality and force-feeds it some Popeye-inducing spinach. It gives users of the social network to search through the timelines of friends to find valuable information. Facebook does note that this is different from web search, in that it combs through a selective base. In some ways, the theory goes, it should be an interesting way to use phrases to gain information. And it will bounce in some results from Bing, NOT Google.
In any case, it’s an interesting way of leveraging the massive information hub that Facebook has become. More information along with a signup form is on the Facebook Graph Search page, but this is what I want to know:
Why do you think this will be a #WIN or #FAIL?
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