Facebook deploys widely Graph Search

Facebook Graph Search function has already been much written earlier this year, despite the launch currently limited to U.S. only. This specific search engine social network allows users to search public status taking into account various criteria could well have fun looking for all those who like a particular page. This feature had been blamed by the defenders of privacy, violation of which showed this type of research, which provides easily a list of people who like a political party or brand.

But Facebook does not seem to back: Facebook has announced that Graph Search is deployed on all English versions of Facebook in the coming weeks, and that would index new content. Where the beta version of Graph Search merely reflect profiles and pictures like the new version will return the status, geolocation of posts, photo captions and comments. On his blog, Facebook and details several examples of possible research with Graph Search: you can filter the search results for all content posted from the White House, or on a particular subject such as a TV show.

Always, remember that the Facebook Graph Search results are in accordance with its privacy policy, since the tool returns only you have access to content, either because you are friends with the author of the post, either because if they are in public. But when the complexity of the privacy settings of the social network is known, it is often difficult to distinguish between public, private and the myriad of possible degrees between these two extremes (content viewed by your friends, by the friends of your friends, ...).