Facebook Announces Graph Search

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests.

“Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have answers.” Linking things together based on things that you’re interested in is a “very hard technical problem,” said Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook also announced a closer partnership with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which will provide search results from the web to augment searches on Facebook.

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