Facebook Graph Search

<p>Facebook Graph Search was a <a href="/facts/Semantic_search/f7lwjtwf">semantic search</a> engine that <a href="/facts/Facebook/0IhXFR6u">Facebook</a> introduced in March 2013. It was designed to give answers to user <a href="/facts/Natural_language_processing/1hjMKsSN">natural language</a> queries rather than a list of links. The name refers to the <a href="/facts/Social_graph/dPAm4CFB">social graph</a> nature of Facebook, which maps the relationships among users. The Graph Search feature combined the <a href="/facts/Facebook/0IhXFR6u">big data</a> acquired from its over one billion users and external data into a search engine providing user-specific search results. In a presentation headed by Facebook CEO <a href="/facts/Mark_Zuckerberg/TJpEwVE6">Mark Zuckerberg</a>, it was announced that the Graph Search algorithm finds information from within a user's network of friends. <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a>'s <a href="/facts/Bing_(search_engine)/r2pIK5HT">Bing</a> search engine provided additional results. In July it was made available to all users using the <a href="/facts/American_English/sdAfgPgM">U.S. English</a> version of Facebook. After being made less publicly visible starting December 2014, the original Graph Search was almost entirely deprecated in June 2019.
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Facebook Graph Search