Facebook's Graph Search isn't a Google competitor for users, it's for advertisers

3. Edmund posted on 15 Jan 2013, 19:31 1 0

I love how some of the other tech sites, that incidentally love to call themselves "impartial" and/or "unbiased", didn't even bother to run a story on this. Thumbs up to Phone Arena for at least reporting about Facebook Graph.

4. speckledapple posted on 15 Jan 2013, 20:22 0 0

I agree that it can be expanded to include very organic data. Finding places to eat that chefs like in my area or from Food Network is a much more useful piece for the technology. They still have a chance to improve and its still in beta. Great article Michael.

5. jsdechavez posted on 15 Jan 2013, 22:10 0 0

Facebook shareholders want their money.

6. freebee269 posted on 15 Jan 2013, 22:40 0 0

When using Graph Search, you might want external data (like weather, ticket prices, etc) pulled into the results. That data will be supplied from Bing because Google wasn’t willing to work with Facebook on their privacy needs. When a Facebook user changes their privacy setting on something like a photo, Google was unwilling to remove it from their search index. Facebook hasn’t always had the best stance on privacy, but the company has been making recent efforts to simplify the overall privacy experience. It’s really interesting that Google didn’t want to work with Facebook and instead chose to place the importance of their search results over privacy concerns from users.

Tweet of the day comes from Ed Bott, talking about the whole breakdown between Facebook and Google he said:

“I mean, when Facebook says your privacy policies are troublesome, you know you’ve crossed a line”