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 ...

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 ...

Home-based agents who only have been dipping their toes into social media, questioning whether such efforts generate a return on investment, may want to rethink their position as Facebook rolls out ...

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 ...

A few months ago, Facebook rolled out Graph Search, which is essentially a high powered search engine for your profile. Users can search for others not just by name, but by interests, photos, pages, ...