Facebook announces Graph Search update

Facebook announced Monday that it’s starting to roll out an update to Graph Search that enables users to search for conversation topics within status updates, comments and posts.

In the blog post, Facebook said people can now search “status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments” from both their own timelines and those of their friends.

Users can search for specific things by, for example, typing in, “Posts about Dancing with the Stars by my friends,” which will bring up any posts by their friends on the service who have commented on or shared content about the show.

Earlier this year, Facebook expanded its search features by allowing users to hunt through their network to find friends or other connections with a common link — for example, “Pictures of people I know who live in San Francisco,” rather than, “dog, San Francisco,” as they do on Google, could entice users to engage with the search features more.

For those who aren’t interested in sharing their past, Facebook has security features in which they can review and hide past activities. Facebook has had to address some questions about privacy since it launched the service in January, and some users rushed to change their privacy settings after it was introduced.

“As with other things in Graph Search, you can only see content that has been shared with you, including posts shared publicly by people you are not friends with,” Facebook said on Monday.

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