Facebook unveils its search engine, Graph Search

At a conference mystery, Facebook executives have presented a search engine. Named Graph Search, it will be tested before replacing the current search bar.

A little like Google and its "Knowledge Graph," Facebook introduced Tuesday, January 15 its search engine and intuitive intelligent, named Graph Search. Unlike Google, it will obviously be limited to the entire contents of the social network. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social network, stated that "this feature was based on engineering the site has developed over the years."

This new feature will replace the existing search bar located at the top of each page. It will become possible to enter very specific queries such as "my friends fans of Jay Z" or "pictures of Nantes" or "restaurants in Rome visited by my family," in order to obtain results that are particularly targeted. The leader encouraged Facebook users shared and "liker" more for there to be more interaction between users. He also announced a partnership with Microsoft's Bing to fill certain gaps as weather reports or publications of the last pieces of music. However, Mark Zuckerberg said that Graph Search was a search on Facebook and not a web search.

Beta version of the new service must be deployed gradually for Analysts this is good news. Brian Blu, an analyst at Gartner, says "indexing of all data is a huge problem for computer Facebook. The social network can take out of the game and Graph Search is a positive first step. "