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. Facebook Graph Search, the social ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. “Analyzing ...

Facebook on Tuesday introduced an internally-focused social search engine called Graph Search as a way to help people make connections within Facebook's user-defined privacy settings. Speaking before ...

Facebook’s social search product Graph Search could pave the way for a host of targeting opportunities for advertisers, but must be extended to mobile fast, according to industry experts. Graph Search ...

Editor’s Note: This story was published with a factual error. Other Facebook users cannot view your Facebook Activity Log, which includes a log of your search ...

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 ...

The introduction of Facebook’s Open Graph presents a unique opportunity for brands to harness the voice of their customer advocates and leverage the power of word of mouth (WOM). Brands are now able ...