The next step in Facebook’s evolution will be introduced today as the social network will begin rolling out its new “Graph Search” feature for US-based accounts. Backed by Microsoft’s Bing search engine, Graph Search is touted as being a much faster and more intricate search option for the site. Users can, for example, search “Photos of friends from July 2013,” then the results will show a grid of the user’s friends’ photos tagged in July 2013. Search results will also include normal Bing results, giving the social network an actual search engine for users to utilize.
Of course, with such a powerful search engine comes some privacy concerns. As such, users will be reminded to update their privacy settings to ensure everything they want to keep hidden will, in fact, continue to be kept hidden. Graph Search will be rolling out for Facebook’s web browsers with a mobile update sure to follow in the near future. However, do you think the new feature will be enough to keep existing Facebook users interested?
[via ABC News]