Facebook GRAPH

I know everyone(at least pretend) uses Facebook and you should be noting that for last few weeks your Facebook homepage must me appearing different. Don’t say me no. It’s all due to new application from Facebook called as GRAPH. The is the 3rd revolutionary application from their stable. The other two were Newsfeed and Timeline.

So what’s Graph, it’s a search application (remember the various graph algorithms we studied in our days of Engineering) and it works in the same fashion. Suppose you wanted to search anything about let’s say about Tiger. Traditional search solutions like Google will return the same results for everyone unless you signed in google and they track your search using the cookies. Facebook GRAPH will use your friends list (Deloitte calls it as Networking) to get everything related to Tiger. If someone in your network had visited Bandipur and commented that its better than Mudumalai, it’s going to influence your decision. Some of us stalk behind people to get info, no need going forward.

You can also have a little bit more insight about graph based search from the below link,

Regarding the privacy, yes Facebook allows to have a control on the visibility/availability of your profile for search.