Ten months after launch, the social network's open-ended search
engine is being given to some members using Facebook in British English.
Facebook is giving Graph Search, its natural language search engine,
to overseas audiences for the first time. The social network said
Tuesday that it will gradually roll out Graph Search to members in the
UK.
First introduced in January, Graph Search is designed to make every
piece of Facebook content shared by you or with you, including items
posted publicly, accessible through natural language queries such as
"photos of my friends in Paris" or "friends of friends who like
football."
The engine was initially limited to queries around people, photos,
places, and interests, but at the end of September, Facebook began
letting some members in the US search for status updates, photo
captions, check-ins, and comments. The additional features are not yet
available in the UK version.
The belated expanded release of Graph Search, which is only available
to a small number of people using Facebook in UK British to start,
hints at some of the complications in localizing the Facebook search
experience.
Questions remain about whether the social network's 1.19 billion
members will embrace Graph Search beyond just searching for Pages or
people to friend, as they've been conditioned to do over the years. The
search engine, which proffers open-ended possibilities in what you can
uncover on Facebook, comes with a learning curve and its own special
language.
Source: cnet
