Facebook Graph Search

Facebook Graph Search is a semantic search engine being rolled out by Facebook. Developed under former Google employees Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, it is designed to give answers to user natural language queries rather than a list of links.^[1] In a presentation headed by Mark Zuckerberg, it was announced that the Graph Search algorithm finds information from within a user's network of friends. Additional results will be provided by Microsoft's Bing search engine.^[2]

During its roll out stage, a highly visited Tumblr blog, Actual Facebook Graph Searches, showed how Facebook Graph Search could be used to uncover potentially embarrassing information (e.g., companies employing people who like racism) or illegal interests (e.g., Chinese residents who like the banned group Falun Gong).^[3][4]