Facebook's message is clear log on get
comfortable and stay a while in a much
awaited announcement CEO Mark Zuckerberg
introduced graph search the new search
tool combs your social network to
provide results tailored to you yet one
more reason to park yourself on Facebook
site today we're really just starting
off with a few basic types of things
that you can search for people photos
Places pages for businesses and that's
just the start
users can find photos of friends taken
before 1999 friends who work at a
particular company or Indian restaurants
liked by Indian friends meaning graph
search explores territory claimed by not
only Google but also Yelp and LinkedIn
anticipating concerns Facebook
repeatedly stated graph search is
privacy aware only pulling from content
that's been shared with you
Facebook is said over and over again
nothing is on here that isn't already
public despite them saying that though a
lot of people don't realize what they've
put up it that is public while reaction
to features like timeline has been mixed
graph search may win more fans no one
else has the data to do this no one else
has the amount of people on their
network to do this graph search is
available to a small group of users now
others can join the wait list at where
else Facebook in San Francisco I'm Sumi
das cnet.com for CBS News
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