Facebook has unveiled Graph Search, a new engine that will power search and discovery on the 1 billion member-strong social network. After going hands on with the new product, we feel that it in part ...

Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. Turn Graph Search on and your ...

Facebook's new search feature, still being rolled out to users, promises to be pretty nifty if you want to find friends who, say, moved to another city or use a certain doctor. But if you don't want ...

Facebook unveiled its newest feature during a much-anticipated event at its headquarters in Menlo Park, California on Tuesday. Called “Graph Search,” the new feature is an advanced social search ...

What imagery does the term “graph search” bring forth in your mind? A tool that searches graphs? Possibly an executive search firm? I wouldn't be surprised to hear any of these potential responses, ...

Last year, the social media powerhouse rolled out Timeline, a feature that set off a stream of concerns about privacy as it became easier than ever for visitors to scroll through years of Facebook ...

Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. [ Explore ...

Facebook has a mind-blowing amount of useful information sitting on its servers — it’s adding 500 terabytes a day at last count — but until now it lacked an efficient way for any one person to take ...

Despite hiring a couple of linguists to get its new search engine to move "beyond 'Robospeak" and understand how people talk, Facebook hasn't taught Graph Search how to do that very well just yet. And ...