For the past year, internet companies have been making central changes in the way they do things. All these changes are happening against the backdrop of an increased need for a personalized web – a ...

Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, CrossFit, and eating vegan. Her jokes are often in poor taste, but her articles are not. Turn Graph Search on and your ...

Facebook’s Graph Search is the future of search. Even before Google was a verb, the search engine Holy Grail was to deliver you the most relevant search results despite not knowing who you were and ...

In 2006, Facebook unveiled a “controversial feature” – sharing changes users made to their profiles with the users’ friends. This was the feature that made Facebook, well…Facebook, the change that ...

Move over Hadoop, there is another highly scalable data-processing powerhouse in town: Apache Giraph. Facebook is using the technology to bring a new style of search to its billion users. “Analyzing ...

Facebook’s new Graph Search tool will let users delve deeper into what their friends and strangers are interested in. On the surface, it seems a compelling tool to make sense of nine years of data.

If there's something that Facebook doesn't want to compromise with its new Open Graph platform, it's user privacy. So, it's no wonder that many of the questions during a press Q&A with Facebook execs ...