According to our source who has got a chance to play with the new Facebook Graph Search with our personal account, and it's definitely not a small addition to the site. Top overall menubar has been redesigned, with universal search pinned to the upper left, and friend requests, messages and notifications button to move to the far right of the screen. Similarly, you'll see a subtle tweak to its iconic design and coloring. But most importantly: ".
Seeking people, places, and things" the word "Facebook" has been removed from the upper left, replaced by the logo 'f' small, ask you for when you hover your mouse over the box, change the logo for glass officials, and click into the search field offers a choice of main quest: friends, photos, restaurant, games, music, photos, and more.
Searches can range from simple to complex, and Facebook does a decent job to cope with natural language entries. And can handle a search among your friends, their activities, and they check in a way that Google can not.
Facebook provides improved search on the right track, so you can dig and search for cafes, bars, and other types of places. Search Facebook for "eating place my friend" returns a much more specific set of results, and you can go deeper into the hole by searching "pictures of my friends out in the garden,". Step back a little, and you can find "pictures taken at eating places my friends have posted." Each provides a radically different results, and improvements let you dig deeper and deeper into the various variables
Quality of the results varies depending on what you are looking for. Searching for "music that my friends sick" tend to return the results blandest possible - remember, Search returns results in the graph are all of your friends, which included family, old high school friends, co-workers, etc.. But looking for something specific, such as "friends in Texas" is surprisingly accurate. As far as speed and responsiveness, it is certainly nowhere near as fast as Google or Bing today. Sometimes it's fast.
Another major announcement today is a new development in the integration of Bing Facebook. Under search options, you'll find web icons gray world that lets you search Bing from within the Facebook UI. It's quite simple.
As Zuckerberg noted in the event, Instagram data is not here right now, but "on the list of things that we would one day get." And, of course, full of Instagram geotag data, which will make the geographical search significantly richer than they are now. We hope that as additional applications of the Facebook social graph attached to the new search tools, search results will be more relevant - imagine looking music your friends have been listening to on Rdio in the last two weeks.
Again, Find Graph Facebook is still not open to the public, and you should sign up for a waiting list to get early access.
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