Till now, searching the web for any kind of data has been synonymous with Google. But if Facebook’s latest launch on Tuesday is anything to go by, the social networking giant is now hoping to eat into Google’s rather large market share. Called Graph Search, this service lets subscribers sift through
their social connections for information about people, interests, photographs and places.
“Graph Search is designed to take a precise query and return to you the answer, not links to other places where you might get the answer,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 28-year-old founder, told reporters present at the launch. “What you’ve seen today is a really different product from anything else that’s out there,” he added.
He also drove home the point that the user could and would decide the amount of information he/she wanted to share with the world, thereby addressing potential privacy issues that have plagued the social networking giant in the past.
He also drove home the point that the user could and would decide the amount of information he/she wanted to share with the world, thereby addressing potential privacy issues that have plagued the social networking giant in the past.
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