Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. Turn Graph Search on and your ...

Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data-processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. “Analyzing ...

Facebook on Tuesday introduced an internally-focused social search engine called Graph Search as a way to help people make connections within Facebook's user-defined privacy settings. Speaking before ...

Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. Facebook Graph Search, the social ...

Facebook held a big press event this morning. The company only sent out invitations last week, and when it did, it didn’t disclose the topic. But in a sense, everyone who pays close attention to ...

What imagery does the term “graph search” bring forth in your mind? A tool that searches graphs? Possibly an executive search firm? I wouldn't be surprised to hear any of these potential responses, ...

Facebook’s Graph Search is the future of search. Even before Google was a verb, the search engine Holy Grail was to deliver you the most relevant search results despite not knowing who you were and ...

I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts covering smart home, home entertainment, wearables, fitness and health tech, and various other product ...

Why spend all those billions on acquisitions? It’s simple. Yahoo! has the content (financial quotes, celebrity news, sports, self improvement, politics and so much more), but can’t match this content ...

Facebook's new search feature, still being rolled out to users, promises to be pretty nifty if you want to find friends who, say, moved to another city or use a certain doctor. But if you don't want ...

Despite hiring a couple of linguists to get its new search engine to move "beyond 'Robospeak" and understand how people talk, Facebook hasn't taught Graph Search how to do that very well just yet. And ...