The relationships between these nodes, called "edges," contain their own metadata to describe the type of relationship between them. The graph database used by Facebook is quite similar to Google ...

Zuckerberg attributed the power of Facebook to the "social graph, ” the network of connections and relationships between people on the service. He said, "It's the reason Facebook works." ...

Facebook's Graph Search—the social network's so-called third pillar—rolled out to all American users last week, but it has a long way to go before being useful.

Facebook Chairman and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg introduces Graph Search features during a presentation January 15, 2013 in Menlo Park. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Online ...

How exactly Graph Search works has remained a bit of a mystery, but recently Facebook’s Engineering blog gave a no-holds-barred look at what makes Graph Search’s gears turn.

So, I started applying this relationship theory to Facebook Graph searches. First I typed in "Single females who live in Denver, Colorado," and got more than 1,000 results.

Graph Search is essentially a relaunch of Facebook's internal search engine, allowing its already existing users to forge new relationships with folks they may not otherwise meet, and to find ...

Facebook just announced a search product called Graph Search. Here are a list of frequently asked questions and answers, written by Facebook PR: What is Graph Search? Graph Search is a new way for ...

Facebook has already been popular with marketers for its highly targeted Facebook ads, where advertisers can reach audiences based on users' own interests and demographic data collected by Facebook.

Operators and marketers are closely tracking any effect Facebook’s new Graph Search might have on restaurant referrals and word-of-mouth, but so far the new search function mainly puts the onus ...

A graph database is a dynamic database management system uniquely structured to manage complex and interconnected data. Unlike traditional databases organized in rows and columns, graph databases ...