<b>commentary</b> Despite improvements, the new social-networking dimension being given to U.S. members is too difficult to navigate, very unsettling, and not yet advertiser-friendly. Jennifer Van ...

Where there’s discovery, there’s opportunity for sponsored discovery. Though there are no ads in Facebook’s new Graph Search engine yet, eventually Facebook could let advertisers pay to show their ...

MENLO PARK, California (CNN) — The search feature on Facebook has traditionally been pretty limited. You type in a name of a person or a business and it pulls up their Facebook page. But that’s about ...

<b>commentary</b> Before taking on Google, the social network will have to convince people to deviate from the only learned search behavior they know: looking for people. That's a tall order. Jennifer ...

Facebook's success with Graph Search depends entirely upon users' willingness to share as much as they currently do, and then some. Whether or not that will continue to be the case is still to be ...

With the introduction of its Graph Search feature, Facebook is trying to turn the vast store of data about relationships between people, places, and things into something useful for its users: a ...

Of all Facebook’s data sets, it’s the social graph that’s truly unique. It’s spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it’s sick of handing over your friend list to ...

Facebook is mining its trillion connections with Graph Search, a tool to find content that’s being shared between users that’s distinct from web searches. The company is taking on Google’s own ...

One week ago, I received a Facebook message from my friend David. “SUPER random question, but do you know a girl from Michigan whose name is Lauren and lives in Boston?” he asked. “Apparently she is ...