Facebook announced Wednesday that it has successfully launched its newest Graph Search feature for all users in U.S. English.
Facebook introduced the new Graph Search feature in January with only a handful of users getting a chance to experience it. But now the world's largest social networking site has officially confirmed it for all users in U.S. English. Graph Search appears as a large bar at the top of the page and allows users to search information about their friends' whereabouts, likes and make new connections more easily.
The addition of the new search option has not changed the older version, which was used to find people and pages using their names, but has been enhanced to find information through the 1 trillion connections using simple phrases. The updated search engine allows users to find old and make new friends with common interests by using phrases like, "My friends who live in my city," "People from my hometown," "Friends of friends who live nearby and like playing tennis," the company said in its announcement Wednesday.
Exploring new places has been made easier than ever. If you want to find a restaurant or café around your place, which has been liked by your friends, then users can look for "Hotels in Seattle visited by my friends", "Cafes in Paris, France, visited by people who live in Paris, France," "Restaurants in New York liked by graduates of the Culinary Institute of America."
Similarly users can discover books, movies and music that your friends like. Giving an example for searching with twisted phrases such as "Music liked by people who like the music that I like," which may take us an extra second to understand, but the new search engine will give you the search results instantly.
Facebook finally shut down of the "who can look up my timeline by name?" setting, which was used by a small percentage of people. Users can still use the Facebook's privacy shortcuts to manage and control the security settings of the account. The new Graph Search feature has a lot of scope for improvement. Facebook said it will eventually expand its search criteria to finding comments, posts and mobile.
The California-based company did not outline any plans of expanding the feature to other language users.
