Facebook Social Graph Search Walkthrough

On Tuesday Facebook revealed their next new feature - graph search. Facebook's social search will offer users a better, more useful way to navigate through their connections. The graph search will appear as a longer search bar on the top of your Facebook window. You can combine a set of phrases related to for main areas - people, photos, places, and interests, - to receive a customized set of results.

Examples of Searches in the Four Main Graph Search Areas

People - "Friends in New York," "friends who live in my city,"people who like tennis" Photos - "Photos of my friends," "photos of Paris" Places - "Restaurants in New York," "countries my friends have visited" Interests - "Music my friends like,"strategy games played by friends of friends"

Apart from traditional web search, Facebook Graph Search only delivers content that has been shared on Facebook in the search results. But although this social search will make finding things on Facebook a lot easier, you can only view the content that you are able to view elsewhere. Privacy settings remain intact.

Facebook anitipates the full rollout of Facebook Graph Search to be slow, but Graph Search beta starts today. Sign up to be put on the wait list to try Facebook Graph Search today.