News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Introducing Graph Search. Parent comment

Re:Introducing Graph Search by shmerl on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:24PM (#5062316)
That's where other social networks differ. On Diaspora for example one probably doesn't know anyone after joining, and you always meet new people. You follow interests, subjects and conversations, not your acquaintances from real life. So it may be "big" for Facebook, but it's routine for other networks.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Introducing Graph Search by Le_SDT on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:39PM (#5062428)
It might be a routine for others but the big thing here is that facebook found a way to do it and there are a LOT of people already on facebook. That will then make facebook the biggest and most efficient site for this feature.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Introducing Graph Search by shmerl on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @02:59PM (#5062577)
Hashtags work for that quite successfully (in Twitter and Diaspora). I'm not sure how well will these graphs work in comparison, but it's better than nothing for Facebook.
[ Parent | on HN ]