Facebook holds press event to show off its next big thing
Facebook is holding a media event at its headquarter in Menlo Park, Calif. We'll be bringing you all the news.
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The news so far:
• Facebook takes on Google with Graph Search
• Introducing Graph Search Beta (official Facebook post)
• Sign up to get on the wait list for Graph Search (official Facebook link)by David Hamilton -
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Q: Any consideration of working with Google?
And there is silence... laughter....
Zuckerberg said Google wasn't willing to do what Facebook wanted in terms of privacy concerns.by Paul Sloan -
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Q: Any plans to couple voice search with Graph Search?
A: Nope, not right now, says Zuckerberg.by Paul Sloan -
Stock's been heading south all throughout. No phone, no more stock bump.by charles.cooper
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Q: What would you like Google to do regarding privacy?
Zuckerberg: When people share on Facebook, we want to give them the ability to take content down after they share, for example. That takes a lot of commitment from our partner. And Microsoft was willing in a way that Google was not.by Paul Sloan -
"That's where the discussion fell apart last time we talked about it" with Google.by Paul Sloan
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Q: Have you tested Social Graph with people outside of Facebook?by Paul Sloan
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The hope is that now that search exists, people will fill out more information. (Seems like a hard argument. This whole system requires people to share a lot about everything).by Paul Sloan
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Q: Question about places
A: We order them based on who has 'Liked" them and checkins and all of that is fed into an algorithm.by Paul Sloan -
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Zuckerberg: We recently started asking people to checkin and rate places. By doing that, we're enabling a mass amount of people to discover great restaurants.by Paul Sloan
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"There are so many people on Facebook that you can get good signals very quickly," says Zuckerberg.by Paul Sloan
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Q: Will Instagram be involved?
Zuckerberg: That should be on the list of the things that one day we will get to.
It's really early, it's not that we've forgot. It takes years and years and is really hard.by Paul Sloan -
That's a wrap, gang.by Paul Sloan
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well - yes - people will share more but it will be stuff that they are already sharing on Yelp or Foursquare or LinkedInby daniel
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And now back to comments.by David Hamilton
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@Paul Sloan Why is this? What went wrong between Google and Facebook?by Mehran Olfati
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How will this work towards friends who don't "like" everything in sight. Will the liking sytem get extended so that it encourages peaple to share interets more?by Phil
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So is the search result refined exclusively to Facebook? If so will it link out to websites sometimes?by Phil
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Thanks very much for watching. In sum, this is a bold effort as Facebook steps into search through what it's calling Graph Search, focusing on ways to parse information about photos, places, interest, things.by Paul Sloan
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Can't wait to put "Find jobs for a smart ass in Wichita, KS."by TRose2342
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@CNET great coverage guys, very smooth and easy to digestby ravishukle
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well done CNET, thank youby Crystal Macklin
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You're welcome.by Paul Sloan
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Maybe not head-on with google but a start nonetheless methinks...by Christos
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Clearly there's a long way to go w/ all this -- but this is a smart direction for Facebook that CNET has been writing about for a while.by Paul Sloan
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Small business will feel compelled to get on this and to ask everyone to "like" them. Wonderfully evil network marketing effect on FB's part.by idea2go
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Great photos of Zuckerbergby RA
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what about video search. what I be able to search for video of my ex with my friends.by Maine
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i was expecting a FB phone :(by Sudip Biswas
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sounds like the ultimate creep machineby jjj
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Makes 'Pages' that much more powerful. Will boost spending my companies, vying for 'Likes' so it will get boosted in the results. Win for FB revenue, along with % cut of Bing results..by Jay C
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people should really review their post, especially the one which are publicby Jake Massa
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IN fact, search is something we knew they would get going: check out this piece i wrote about predictions for 2013: news.cnet.comby Paul Sloan
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Well done @Paul Sloan... Everyone be sure to like CNET on Facebook, so when you search "live feeds about Facebook announcements" this will come up hahaby annonymous
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What's with the stars/reviews on that screenshot of restaurant search? Are the reviews pulled from Bing or is Facebook setting up an internal review system for places?by Elena Meadowcroft
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There will be a similar privacy outcry when this rolls out...but it will be baseless, just like the last one...Users thinking FB is publishing private data, when really it has been public all along.by Jay C
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The big challenge is how much people will share and be comfortable. But i think this is the way the search world is going and despite all the talk about how both web search and social search can coexist, i think Google must be nervous.by Paul Sloan
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It's time to mingle and head out. Thanks again, gang. Thanks for watching. Paulby Paul Sloan
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I wonder if there wil be a setting to allow my "likes" to count but not to be individually identified?by idea2go
