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What Did Facebook Announce at Its Mystery Press Event? And How It Might Impact Your Privacy

Jan. 15, 2013 3:23pm

Facebook last week teased a press event with ”come see what we’re building.” It was speculated (not for the first time either) that the social media giant was going to unveil a phone. Guess what: it didn’t.

Instead, Facebook announced a new search feature that might give Google some competition — and might have people confirming their privacy settings yet again.

Facebook Announces Graph Search Feature

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. , Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (Photo: AP/Jeff Chiu)

All Facebook, the unofficial Facebook blog, reported that “Graph Search” simplifies how users find photos of friends, what friends have liked and more:

For instance, users can search for photos of their friends by location, whether it’s specific (AT&T Park) or general (at a theme park). Users can also search for friends-of-friends based on location, education, relationship status, and several other filters.

People can also discover music, movies, TV shows and other interests based on what their friends like. If you type in something generic such as “Shows my friends like,” graph search will return with a bevy of results — but not just links to the shows’ Facebook pages, but of clips too. There are several filters that users can take advantage of, such as friends in California who went to U.C. Berkeley and like sushi.

If this calls to mind some privacy concerns, watch this video from Facebook discussing how privacy works in Graph Search:

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the new feature would be rolled out as a beta test slowly to gauge community interest. Some users might see availability as early as Tuesday.

If what you’re searching for on Facebook isn’t applicable to Graph Search, Microsoft said in a blog post (via Tech Crunch) that users will see Web search results from Bing.

“Imagine searching for Jay-Z concerts on Facebook, and not only finding Facebook content, but also web results from Bing including concert tickets, news about the tour and other web results—annotated with Facebook Likes and Shares,” Derrick Connell, corporate vice president of search for Bing, wrote. “We think this is a powerful combination.”

As for those who thought the announcement would be a phone, Zuckerberg said last fall when rumors were going that direction that he thought it was “so clearly the wrong strategy for us.”

If you’re interested in signing up for the beta test of Graph Search, learn more here.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Comments (40)

  • Abdul.Wahab
    Posted on January 21, 2013 at 11:20pm

    So far its not going to affect tradition search engines even not in near future. because currently their focus to give categorised and specific search results from/within facebook data…. On the other hand traditional search engines provide a lot more than this. but yes in 1-2 yrs it will be real competitor in this regard….

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  • lylejk
    Posted on January 16, 2013 at 10:57pm

    His announcement doesn’t effect me one bit; I don’t facebook. If you should ever get an invite from what you think is me, it will be an imposter since I refuse to ever be a member of this wacky company. :)

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  • lgccac
    Posted on January 16, 2013 at 7:33am

    Privacy? What privacy?

    Don’t put anything on Facebook that you don’t want the world to see or know.

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    • G-WHIZ
      Posted on January 16, 2013 at 11:58am

      I never use bareazz-book or twerp anyone!! I donot want my words/pix trashed and read by billions of wood-be crimminals!!

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    • jhrusky
      Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:10pm

      Don’t put anything on the INTERNET that you don’t want the world to see or know. It’s not just Facebook. Be smart about what you post and how you post.

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      jhrusky  
  • media-bias-steals-elections
    Posted on January 16, 2013 at 7:30am

    This is not rocket science, social media is free because until it builds a database that is useful to advertisers, the founders have one purpose in life, to pimp the possibilities of what future customer might be able to do with the data they collected, and by the time you figure out what that data is and who the customers are, it will be too late?

    Mr. Putin is using the flat tax? He might have a serious immigration problem if that policy sticks around?

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  • Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
    Posted on January 16, 2013 at 2:56am

    “Hey, kids, you want some candy? Just step into the car!”
    Your parents warned YOU about this, didn’t they? But did you warn YOUR children?

    “Behind Facebook—A New World Order Agenda?”
    http://adventofdeception.com/facebook-ciacover-nwo-agenda/
    “The social networking website Facebook launched February 2004 and rose to the number one social networking spot in competition with Myspace. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.”

    “In 2007 the success story of Facebook spread across the blogosphere. A complex but riveting Big Brother-type conspiracy theory which links Facebook to the CIA and the US Department of Defense.”

    “April 2011: Facebook quietly switches on facial recognition tech by default. Facebook has rolled out its facial recognition technology, but has switched the feature on by default without telling its users first.”

    “The prime question to ask is if Facebook is not being used for Intelligence agencies such as the CIA and Mossad? And, why is Chris Hughes on the guest list of the Bilderberg meeting of 2011?”

    “… ($12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999.”

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  • Advection
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 7:31pm

    If you don’t pay for a service, THE PRODUCT IS YOU.

    Run far, run fast.

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    Advection  
  • raybaker35
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 7:06pm

    I disagree with almost everythng Beck has to say since obama won the election. He has given up. First he wated us to prepare and fight. Now? I have no idea what he wants. If we are not going to fight for the 2nd amendment what are we supposd to fight for?

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 11:05pm

      You don’t what Glenn wants? He wants what he has always wanted, your adoration and your money.

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    • packersr01
      Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:23pm

      Without the 2nd amendment we have no way to fight to save for ourselves the other amendments. However, violence is not the only way to fight. Don’t get me wrong…. I will take whatever actions are required to save our rights.

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    • rose.777
      Posted on January 17, 2013 at 10:00am

      Jesus!and your soul>thats whats left in the end

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  • AR does not stand for ASSAULT RIFLE
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:48pm

    @VRW Conspirator

    Nazi huh! well do you go around calling your revolver a semi auto? and airplane a car?

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:38pm

    “Mark Zuckerberg”

    You know, when I was in college, I never once stole my friend’s code or projects that were way beyond my skill level, claimed them as my own then went out and started a company on it. If I would have known it would make me a billionaire, then, like I do now, I might have reconsidered.

    Every time I hear Zuckerberg speak I know instinctively down to my bones that he’s not a true coding tech geek, it’s so patently clear and obvious. What’s going on now is other developers are making his paycheque for him. If you sat him down at a computer and opened Visual Studio .NET (with no F1 help files available and no internet connection) and told him to pick a language (C#, VB, C, whatever) and code a Hello World program, he’d still be there 4 hours later, stumped. He’s a fraud, and there’s not a computer programmer on God’s green earth who doesn’t know it.

    Ain’t theft grand? What a schmuck.

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  • jman-6
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:27pm

    KevinTampa- You have no right to privacy in the public domain my friend.

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  • DougHuffman
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:09pm

    Nothing deFacedbook can do will affect my privacy.

    How is DaBlasé ‘Stories’ discussion not (turning into) a social-networking site? “Good morning, Loser.” “Where ya been, Bannedito?”

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  • Texas_Tea_Party
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:01pm

    “Clips” are for ****…

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  • KevINtampa
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:34pm

    #1 I do not have a FaceBook account.

    #2 Stupid friends have “tagged” me by first and last name on FaceBook.

    #3 Now when I’m on vacation, say on a cruise, and someone unbeknownst to me takes a picture where I’m in the background eating dinner I’m tagged as being away from my house for a very specific time frame. Anyone can then do a search for my name in public records (deed on my house & or gun permit if I lived in Chicago or New York thanks to stupid journalists) and know that they have X amount of days to rob me.

    #4 This is the reality for everyone.

    #5 What legal course can I take to have my personal information that others have added removed from any FaceBook database? NONE.

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:45pm

      There are benefits. I get a feed from Rep. Justin Amash, who details every vote in congress, how he voted for it, and why. You can get a lot of first hand knowledge straight from the source.

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    • KevINtampa
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:57pm

      @Just

      That’s fine that you find the benefits outweigh the cons. You can get the same information from Twitter, but it’s your choice. I would simply like the choice to have any image of me or information about me barred on any of FaceBook’s servers as the technology utilized by that company poses a significant safety risk to my well being and personal pursuit of happiness.

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    • shorelineliz
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:57pm

      I deleted my Facebook Account after Election 2012. So did my nephew. We call it FAKEBOOK now. It’s not real. It’s a fiction. It leads you into believing you actually have 500 or 1000 friends. Not real. Read the article by Dr. Keith Ablow titled “Are We Raising a Generation of Deluded Narcissists?” and find this article on Fox News.com. source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/08/are-raising-generation-deluded-narcissists/?intcmp=features#ixzz2HyFLPac0

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    • loriann12
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:12pm

      I deleted my Facebook account after the election, too…too many idiot friends gloating over Obama taking away our liberties.

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    • jman-6
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:24pm

      You don’t have a right to privacy in the public domain my friend.

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      jman-6  
  • biohazard23
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:33pm

    Thank the Lord I deleted my account years ago. Don’t miss it at all.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:00pm

      BIOHAZARD, Shortly after my then much younger son started his account, he warned me to stay away from it years ago. Glad that I took that advice to heart back then. Have never had anything to do with them, and never will.

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  • jcldwl
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:28pm

    Only fools use social media.

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  • Red Meat
    Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:26pm

    Facebook? LOL
    This is almost as funny as Beck not knowing how many rounds fit in a typical auto handgun clip.

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    • caleejr
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 3:32pm

      made the claim – how about the evidence?
      back it up

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:02pm

      RED MEAT, If you bothered to listen to Beck’s show today, that is almost as funny as you still not knowing what a clip is since you are referring to a magazine.

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    • AR does not stand for ASSAULT RIFLE
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:03pm

      What the hell is a handgun clip?

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:17pm

      Glenn simply said that he did not know if people made a 7 round clip…
      Glenn said he has a Sig…probably a 9mm…which would be a 15 or 16 round depending on model… granted a 1911 .45 ACP is a 7 +1 which is what I would carry just because I like the 1911 format over most others…but a Sig P226 Navy would be my second choice…in either 9 or .40…which is a 15 round

      now if we can just get all the English nazis off their pissy attitude about it being a clip or magazine or whatever…what does it matter if I want to call it a fuzzy squirrel…???

      on another note…anyone got an AR they would be willing to part with in a 308 format….223 and 5.56 are nice..but talk about one shot one kill….. great for hunting… great against zombies too…undead ones or living but brain dead…

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    • spfoam1
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:22pm

      A clip is what you used to finish off that joint before you posted your comment.

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    • WillG
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:33pm

      I have a tie clip,Hell I once had a roach clip in my young,foolish teen age years. Would you please explain this hand gun clip thingy Red?

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    • 226crimsontrace
      Posted on January 15, 2013 at 4:49pm

      I have a lot of hand guns, none of them have clips, the ones with magazines range from 6 rd. .380s to thirty rd. 5.7 x 28. Which one is typical???

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