I am not sure if it's matter of time. I am not spending too much time on FB lately because from time to time I get bored from it. Maybe it works for someone who spends more time on FB?
I never had the urge to discuss about this search issue with no one, so actually I have no idea if it's been useful to anyone.
@Susan, I have never used FB search. Its hard to correlate FB with the search. I think it will take more time for the users to realise the true potential of such tools.
Honestly, Facebook search has never been useful for me. I never had the urge to discuss about this search issue with no one, so actually I have no idea if it's been useful to anyone.
Of course, there is always the possibility that FB search is great and I just haven't cared about it, and therefore it hasn't been useful for that reason. :D
Facebook constantly tests and tweaks its features for its diverse, global audience, paying close attention to the responses. The search tool, in its first iteration, answers queries by mining some of the data at the company's disposal, including photos, interests and likes. It will eventually mine status updates and other activities, from what users eat to where they hike. The introduction is especially slow, Facebook executives have said, so they can better test what works and what does not.
Yes, that's key: Will Facebook users actually fill out information online in such a way that others find it useful. If nobody Likes a plumber's page, then Facebook won't be useful for finding plumbers.
It's only going to be useful for those people whose friends post a lot of that kind of information. It isn't an equal opportunity resource, like Google Search.
I have Graph Search and I've been playing around with it. I found out that a restaurant I'm familiar with is liked by its owner. That two of my friends like Harry Potter books. My friends don't like any plumbers or babysitters.
But interestingly, trying to search for the latter, I discovered an app called Babysitter which was so keen to access my account it wouldn't let me leave the page. Hmmm.
The question of whether it competes may depend on how we define goals and competition, Mitch. In a goals sense, this has to be aimed at getting ad revenue for Facebook, and in some sense that will necessarily mean using a socially vectored information set to substitute for current product/service review channels, whether it's Amazon or OpenTable. If you get "better" recommendations with Graph Search then it succeeds with users, which makes it succeed with advertisers.
I hadn't thought of the dating-and-introduction angle (largely because I'm decades beyond dating, probably) but that would be a potentially interesting application and also a potential risk. I think that when you ask users whether they are comfortable having their profiles mined to suggest compatibility, you might scare some of them!
Graph Search likely will not compete with Amazon product reviews. Graph Search will likely excel at local businesses and services -- find a good babysitter or car repair place in your local area?
That seems to be the area where Facebook is going in Graph Search, rather than product reviews as we know them.
Also, Facebook seems to be trying to become a dating and introductions service: "Find me friends of my friends who are women, local, and like to line dance." "Find me friends of friends of any gender who are local and like to ski." Or professionally: "Find me people in New York who know Hadoop."
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