Graph search: Facebook as a database
Today, Facebook introduced a new feature called “ graph search ”. This blog post explains what it is. It is based on the Verge’s liveblog of the event. The three pillars of Facebook With the new feature, Facebook will have three pillars: News feed: what's going on with people around me? Timeline: tell me something about this person Graph search: letting people examine any aspect of the data stored in Facebook that they want. Graph search In principle, graph search is like a “Google for Facebook”. But where Google searches huge amounts of text, Facebook will search its “graph” – entities and their connections (X knows Y, X likes Y, etc.). Examples of searches you can perform via graph search: “Music liked by people who like Obama” “Friends of friends who are single men in San Francisco” “Languages my friends speak” “TV shows liked by doctors” “Movies my friends like” “Photos of my friends taken in Paris” “Bars in Dublin liked by people who live in Dublin” “Restaurants i...