Facebook Launch a new Graph Search Engine

Social media giant Facebook has launched a new search engine for content uploaded by its users.According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook now has three pillars, namely Newsfeed, Timeline and now Graph Search.

Zuckerberg pointed this out that. It’s not going to give your best possible results and links like a regular web search. Instead Graph search will look at phrases that you type and give you results based on what your friends have shared.

                                                               

The search improvements involve the ability to ask questions in regular English, such as "which of my friends live in New York?" The search is now intelligent enough to rank your friends based on how much interaction you've had — so that closer friends will appear higher up the results list. It can also search based on stories or photos you've liked. Photos can also be ranked by which have the most Likes, based on the people most important to you in your Friends list.

Currently search will focus on Photos, People, Places and Interests. So if you want to search for say people who live in your city with the same interests like a TV show, Graph search will show you the relevant results. Every time you check into a restaurant or mall, Facebook’s Graph Search could show it to your friends if they too search for the same place.

With Facebook Graph Search, the objects we search for aren’t Web pages but instead virtual representations of real world objects: people, places and things. The connections are primarily Facebook Likes. Did such-and-such a person like a particular photo? A particular doctor? A particular restaurant? Those likes are the ties that bind the information in Facebook together. Users will also be able to search any content that any Facebook user has posted for public viewing on the site.

it will also be "integrated" with Microsoft's Bing search engine, with searches that are not available on Graph Search redirecting to Google's main internet search competitor.

 It doesn't matter that Facebook search can't provide most of what Google search does: you won't get any movie times, directions, answers to who invented to jet engine, or an essentially infinite number of image results for "a cute frog."

But Facebook will give you lots of stuff Google will never be able to touch: every photo you uploaded in June 2009. A list of your friends who grew up in Kansas. A dinner pick that's gotten the FB thumbs up from people you know.