Quantum annealing is a mathematical operation where the extreme points of a function (the maxima and minma of a graph, for example) are determined from a given set of discrete candidate solutions.

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Which gets me back to my original point: If you are doing a good job building and maintaining your following on Facebook, and you keep the interesting content flowing, the expansion of the Graph Search function should naturally start to present your business when the search keywords and phrases apply to what you sell.

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LinkedIn is the professional graph, organized around you, your job, your industry, your title and your function.

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In addition to playing with the Facebook's newest function, we briefly spoke with Tom Stocky, former Googler and director of product, about the challenges of creating Graph Search.

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