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Facebook shows off search function to knock out Google, Yelp, LinkedIn, &...
This morning, Facebook gathered a handful of press at its Menlo Park campus to announce it’s finally rolling out a functional search tool — a tool that’s been more than one year in the making. Called...
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Bing powers web search within Facebook — Microsoft’s $240M investment pays off
Facebook announced its ambitious new Graph Search this morning, but even more intriguing to me was a slightly minor side-announcement: The company is also relying on Microsoft’s Bing for web searches...
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Facebook stock closes down at $30.10 after announcing Graph Search
Facebook released its latest social graph feature Graph Search today, but it seems investors found the announcement lackluster. The social network invited press to the mystery media event on January...
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Hands On: Facebook’s Graph Search is handy, for now
Facebook released its Graph Search today, but sadly, this is only available in beta, and the public won’t have access to it for some time. We got some 1-on-1 time with the search to show you just what...
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Do this now, before Facebook’s Graph Search embarrasses you
Well, crap. Facebook launched search and now you have to figure out what is going to show up in searches around the globe. We feel your pain, so we’ve outlined just how privacy works in this crazy,...
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Yandex releases social search app, tries to dodge future bullets from Facebook
Russian search engine Yandex released its social search app Wonder today — focused entirely on the U.S. market and interestingly timed with Facebook’s own Graph Search Announcement earlier in the...
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Facebook shuts down data access for Yandex’s social search app
Facebook is giving no data love to Yandex, a Russian search engine that launched a social search iOS app today called Wonder. While Wonder lets you ask natural-language queries in a method similar to...
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Why social is changing everything, ad dollars included.
Marcus Whitney is CTO of Moontoast I had heard the logic behind Facebook’s defensibility many times before, consistently pointing to the fact that on Facebook, people are their ‘real selves’, not an...
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Facebook changes News Feed forever — but for the better?
The New News Feed Full coverage of Facebook’s new look: Check out this gallery of Facebook’s News Feed redesign How to opt into the redesigned News Feed News Feed’s design finally catches up with...
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How Graph Search really works: a tech tutorial from the friendly nerds at...
Facebook’s Graph Search is still in its infancy, but the company is ready to talk about how it actually works. Graph Search is based on the idea that we — Facebook users — are all connected to each...
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Facebook explains why it used natural language to compete with Google search
Facebook’s Graph Search is the company’s big bid to compete against the likes of Google, Yelp, and LinkedIn with people-powered, connections-based search. And interestingly enough, even though its...
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How Graph Search became Facebook’s super sexy love letter to structured data
Once upon a time, we identified people, places, and things on Facebook using just strings of characters — letters in sequences that were never really sorted or categorized in any way. Then along came...
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Facebook starts the big hashtag rollout, with trending topics coming soon
Today, Facebook is finally getting aboard the hashtag bandwagon with the first phase of a planned global rollout. Hashtags will help organize timely conversations around popular topics, such as...
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Still don’t have Graph Search? The wait is over in the U.S.
United States-based Facebook users are now all getting access to Graph Search, the company said in an e-mail this morning. “Search on Facebook just got a lot more fun with Graph Search rolling out to...
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Check those privacy settings! Facebook’s Graph Search supports posts
Facebook Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now As it stands, you probably don’t use Facebook’s Graph Search, but this new feature might make you want to. The company is slowly rolling...
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Facebook finally brings its Graph Search to mobile devices
Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. Facebook says it likes...
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Austrian activist ropes Facebook users into his class-action lawsuit against...
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Facebook wants to let mobile users run keyword searches on friends’ profiles
Image Credit: FacebookFacebook has finally realized that you might want to use your mobile device to dig back into content your friends have posted in the past. And it’s working on it. The social...
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Yelp’s stock tanks after Facebook’s Graph Search debut
Yelp’s stock price dropped by as much as eight percent following the announcement of Facebook’s “Graph Search,” which could help users connect more easily with businesses your friends like. Facebook’s...
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Here’s what Facebook Graph Search is doing next
When you take a billion people and throw in a few trillion places, things, concepts, attributes, and connections, you get a data set of mind-boggling scope. So when Facebook decided to launch Graph...
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News Feed’s design finally catches up with Timeline
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook’s News Feed has finally gotten a long-awaited, well-deserved facelift. It’s a design overhaul that fits right in with the company’s shift to a highly visual aesthetic...
View ArticleNow Facebook is competing with everyone in local search, including Apple and...
Facebook announced “Graph Search” today, a new way of finding and interacting with friends and people on Facebook. The new search feature will be interesting for people who just want to find out...
View ArticleSmall business of America: Double down on Facebook now to be part of the new...
Facebook announced its new graph search today. And everything in local marketing is going to change, again. Currently, 90 percent of small businesses are on Facebook, but only a third of these actually...
View ArticleFacebook’s new Graph Search and Google: This means war
Facebook’s new Graph Search is the first service that has the potential to eat Google’s lunch. If it actually does, it’ll happen slowly, gradually, almost without us noticing. But make no mistake,...
View ArticleWhy, why, why did you have to call it ‘Graph Search,’ Facebook?
Yesterday Facebook announced what could be the most revolutionary way to find and connect with people, see the world from others’ eyes, find new friends, seek out new employees, find the best...
View ArticleApple, Google, Facebook, and OpenStreetMap: The top 5 changes to expect from...
GUEST: Marcus Thielking is cofounder of Skobbler, a provider of mobile map-based solutions that use OpenStreetMap data. Map lovers, 2012 was our year. From Apple unveiling and then apologizing for...
View ArticleFacebook loves local: 2B small biz connections, 645M weekly views, 13M weekly...
Facebook loves local business, apparently. And local business love Facebook. Facebook cracked the lid on some of the data from its massive social graph today, and the results are astonishing. There are...
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