Facebook[4] Graph Search is a motor de busca[2] developed by the redes sociais[3] giant, Facebook. Introduced in 2013, it was built by former Google[5] employees Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky. The engine is designed to provide search results based on the user’s profile, their connections, and privacy settings[1]. It’s a semantic search engine, focusing more on the intended meaning of the search query rather than the exact phrasing. It supports searches for people, pages, places, check-ins, and objects within Facebook’s network. Its unique features include an auto-complete function and the ability to filter results by time and specific users’ News feed. However, in 2019, most of its functionalities were halted and the focus shifted towards improving keyword search functionality. Although it provided a more personalized search experience, its launch raised several privacidade[6] concerns.
Pesquisa gráfica do Facebook was a semantic search engine that Facebook introduced in March 2013. It was designed to give answers to user natural language queries rather than a list of links. The name refers to the social graph nature of Facebook, which maps the relationships among users. The Graph Search feature combined the big data acquired from its over one billion users and external data into a search engine providing user-specific search results. In a presentation headed by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was announced that the Graph Search algorithm finds information from within a user's network of friends. Microsoft's Bing search engine provided additional results. In July it was made available to all users using the U.S. English version of Facebook. After being made less publicly visible starting December 2014, the original Graph Search was almost entirely deprecated in June 2019.