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How Facebook Will Power Graph Search

Posted by Unknown on from the moar-power-?x-unification-error dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Last week, Facebook announced Graph Search, a system for searching the social network's vast collection of users, photos, and 'Liked' interests. But how will Facebook power it? The Disaggregated Rack, which will separate compute, RAM, storage, and caching functions in order to remain flexible in the face of Graph Search's changing needs. By breaking up resources and scaling them independently of each other, Facebook can scale without needing to constantly open up new servers and upgrade new hardware."

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  1. How will they power it? by Lost+Race · · Score: 5, Funny

    Probably with electricity from the grid, generated from coal, gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, wind, solar, geothermal, etc, as usual. TFA didn't actually mention power sources at all.

  2. I don't want graph search. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't want "Graph Seach". I just want to search my damn feed. Is that too much to ask?

    1. Re:I don't want graph search. by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 3, Interesting

      That's why the best way to search your own feed is via FQL, just set up an app as if you were a third party marketing company and it's all suddenly much easier to get to your own data.

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      Please consider this account deleted, I just can't be bothered with the spam anymore.
  3. the marketers vs. users war by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    the funny part is that on one hand you have users trying to protect their privacy while marketers are trying to actively exploit it. from what i have read on forbes (links here and here) graph search is more for marketers rather than users. after all, which users care about searching for anything besides people on facebook?

    and all of this is happening on the same website! so essentially facebook is now creating products/features which are basically opposing eachother.

    it must be tough to work in privacy department at facebook. privacy at facebook is being slowly shoved aside in favor of the marketers. and we all know how this story plays out.

  4. "graph search" by Swampash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To misquote Steve Jobs: if you see the word "graph" in a customer-facing product, they blew it.

    The only people who use or have even heard the term "social graph" are product managers at Facebook and Google. Searching a "graph" means absofuckinglutely nothing to an end user.