If Graph Search rolls out as demonstrated, it will be an incredible new product, marrying the concepts of web search and social recommendation into a semantically-accurate, network-powered search engine.
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Microsoft, for example, is taking a cautious approach to its latest social media experiment, So.cl, which actually is part social network, part search engine.
Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network - a smart search engine it has called graph search.
The last one was in January, when the social network introduced its Graph Search internal search engine.
The Russian version of Wikipedia, search engine Yandex and social network Vkontakte all protested against its creation warning that it posed a risk of "extra-judicial censorship".
So a social network directly tied to the most-widely used search engine on the planet is definitely something worth paying attention to.
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There are those cases, of course, where caution need not be applied: There is speculation that Apple plans to revitalize its sorry social network, Ping, via its acquisition of app search engine Chomp.
The software, originally spread through classic methods such as spam, has moved on to more sophisticated attacks by providing links to infected web sites through popular social media content such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, by feeding a corrupted advertisement into an ad network for web sites, and by poisoning search results called Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning.
In the past few years, it has closed down under-performing and non-core sites like social bookmarking service Delicious, search engine AltaVista, online news aggregator Buzz, and social network MyBlogLog.
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He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.
Facebook announced today Graph Search, a new social search engine that crawls private information (photos, places, interests) that people share on the social network site.
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