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Facebook to roll out Graph Search for US English language users over next few weeks

By Angela Haggerty, Reporter

July 8, 2013 | 2 min read

Facebook has announced its new Graph Search feature will be rolled out across all accounts using US English in the coming weeks.

Roll out: Graph Search will become available to US English users

A statement from the social networking site said "tens of millions" of people had helped improve the function by providing feedback on it over the last few months, making it faster and easier to use.

"This is just the beginning," said the statement. "We're currently working on making it easier for people to search and discover topics, including posts and comments."

The statement added that Facebook was working on "getting mobile Graph Search ready".

Graph Search depends on harnessing Facebook photos, posts, likes and shares that users have not set to privacy in order to provide answers or recommendations to queries submitted to the new search bar. Ahead of the roll-out, Facebook said users would be prompted to review their privacy settings if necessary.

"As Graph Search rolls out more widely, everyone on Facebook will see a notice on their home page with a reminder about how to control what they share and with whom," the statement said. "This follows a similar notice in December that highlighted new privacy tools to help people manage what they share on Facebook."

The tool has been tipped as Facebook's answer to Google and will integrate with search engine Bing to provide results for queries that Facebook can't provide an answer for using its own resources.

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