Critic: Facebook’s Graph Search ‘Useless’, Based on ‘Fake’ Likes

Date: Jan 17 2013

Filed under: Technology, Facebook, Internet

By Nicholas Carlson
Facebook
Facebook (FB) unveiled a new search engine this week called Graph Search.

Some think it might help the company eventually steal search advertising dollars from Google (GOOG).

But in a damning blog post, entrepreneur and engineer Steve Cheney argues that Graph Search will be basically useless.

He says it’s as useful as “me yelling across an auditorium for which doctor I should see for my cough.”

He says the whole thing is based on a “con.”

Cheney says much of the…

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