Hitman Posted January 16, 2013 Report Posted January 16, 2013 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 to change. On Tuesday, Facebook introduced an upgraded search tool, [url="https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch"]called Graph Search[/url], that will scour the massive social network to answer more sophisticated questions. [color=#008000][b]Want to find buddies of your pal Chris who went to Stanford and live in Chicago? No problem. People who like tennis and live nearby? Here you go. How about photos of Berlin from 1989? Done.[/b][/color] "This is one of the coolest things we've done in a while," Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a press event at the company's headquarters. Since it became a public company last year, Facebook has been under pressure to launch exciting new products, especially for mobile, that will help boost its floundering stock price. Facebook said Graph Search is launching immediately in beta, although users will need to [url="https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch"]get on a waitlist [/url]to gain access. The company will continue tweaking the product based on feedback from beta users, but Zuckerberg said there's no concrete estimate for how long the rollout will take. For now, Graph Search's functions will be limited. It focuses on four main areas: people, photos, places and interests. More features will be added as they are developed, Zuckerberg said.
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