Facebook has updated its search function to enable you to search for specific posts. It sounds like a pretty basic task, but prior to this recent update, you could only search for Facebook contacts using Facebook Search. According to a ...
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Searching through Twitter’s archive of tweets can be frustrating – they are sorted on the site by Twitter’s own algorithms, and older tweets tend to get buried. Google Forget it. Topsy, an analytics company, wants to do ...
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Does your Facebook search bar look a bit different today? Don't be surprised if it does. Starting today, Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, the advanced search feature that the social network launched in beta earlier this year. Graph ...
Tags: Computer Products, Graph Search, Facebook
Just like on Twitter, Facebook is now putting a small, blue check mark next to the names of celebrities and other high-profile people and businesses on the site to signify their authenticity. The feature, called Verified Pages, will apply ...
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Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site. The new tools constitute yet another expansion to the Microsoft search site to make it ...
Facebook is teaming up with the nation's attorneys general to launch a public awareness campaign aimed at keeping young people safer on the site. The effort, which includes public service announcements and other informational resources, ...
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A Facebook tool that allowed users to view and delete their search history on the site disappeared, and some people were keen to get it back. The absence of the tool, which Facebook rolled out last September, was noticed by users last ...
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Talk that Facebook is developing its own smartphone is spreading again. Speculation about Facebook's hardware plans exploded yet again after the company late Thursday invited reporters to a press event on April 4 at its offices in Menlo ...
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South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map. But if there was a "next big thing" at this year's event, finding it would be pretty ...
Tags: hardware, social networking, apps
As Google aims to expand search's ability to answer increasingly difficult questions based on contextual information, several key obstacles still stand in its way. Knowledge Graph, a feature designed to put users' searches in context and ...
Facebook's Graph Search could be a powerful tool for steering people toward products and services on the social networking site, and marketers are starting to wrestle with the impact it may have on their brands. Graph Search allows users ...
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This year's South by Southwest Interactive will play host to tech trends in areas as diverse as gaming, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and social networking, but whether the next Twitter will emerge at the conference is harder to say. ...
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Facebook is about to launch a redesign of its News Feed feature. The social network sent press invitations to a March 7 event at the company's offices in Menlo Park, Calif. "Come see a new look for News Feed," the invite reads. Facebook ...
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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers. The glitch, which was first reported back in June 2012, was affecting the email field in some mobile ...
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Facebook's engineers have many challenges ahead of them as they work to scale up Graph Search, the site's new social search tool. One stumbling block: an over-abundance of data to sift through. Take the example of searching for Japanese ...
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