Facebook Unveils ‘Graph Search’

Facebook just unveiled a new program ‘Graph Search’ that will take its members posts and photos and put them into a searchable database. The new search engine is expected to revolutionize the way you search within Facebook. But what does that mean for Facebook’s 170 million U.S. users?

The new powerful search engine will allow Facebook users to search their friends’ private photos, posts, contact information without having to go directly to their timetables.

Mark  Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO shared in an interveiw with ‘Nightline’ that he has always wanted to build a ‘social search engine.’

The engine is currently available to a limited number of U.S. users, but is expected to go live in the near feature.

But what about privacy issues?

Tom Stocky, Graph Search engineer said: “[Privacy] is something, of course, we care a lot about, and so from the very beginning we made it so that you can only search for the things that you can already see on Facebook.’

But if you want to opt out all together from the Graph search, Stoky said that’s not an option. He said that individuals have to change the privacy settings on each of their posted content.

What do you think of Facebook’s latest program?