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Bappy10
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Knowledge and wisdom from your friends at your fingertips

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The day before yesterday, Mark Zuckberg introduced the latest addition to the Facebook family: Graph Search. The product allows users to search the social database of over 1 billion users, 240 billion photos and 1 trillion mutual connections. It is the third pillar – alongside Newsfeed and Timeline – on which Facebook will base its business in the future.


Facebook is no longer down
The current way of searching within Facebook leaves much to be desired. You can search for people, list to data things and places, but that's it. You can't really ask intelligent questions to the platform. It's very flat . The new service promises to improve things. Graph Search indexes four types of entities: people, photos, places and interests. In the near future, Facebook will open up even more entities, such as the Facebook status updates that its users post every day.
Graph Search lets us ask Facebook questions in a natural and intuitive way. The combination of verbs ('lives', 'like', 'work'), nouns ('San Francisco', 'Indian', 'restaurants', 'friends'), prepositions ('before', 'with', 'in') and pronouns ('who', 'that') form questions that Facebook understands, for example 'Friends of friends who live in San Francisco and like Indian restaurants' and 'Photos of friends from 1990 untill 1996 who went to the same university'. The knowledge and wisdom of your circle of friends is now at your fingertips.

It is also a way to breathe new life into the past. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have stored enormous amounts of data about their users over the years. However, this data is still not or hardly used. With Graph Search it is now possible to consult the past in a fun way. It is as the article Why the next social media frontier is past states:

“Content gets less valuable over time. And then it gets more valuable.”
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