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January 16, 2013 12:45 am GMT

Watch Out Foursquare And Yelp: Places Really Shines On Facebook Graph Search

Searching for dentists using Facebook Graph SearchFacebook this morning unveiled a massive new product called "Graph Search" at a press event at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. While the impact of this debut will be settling in for a while, one thing seems clear from an early demo of the product: Thanks to Graph Search, Facebook is about to be much, much better for finding places such as restaurants, cafes, bars, and the like.During the press event Lars Rasmussen, one of the Facebook engineering directors who headed up the development of Graph Search, showed off how its technology deals with "places," one of the four topics Graph Search is meant to shine (along with people, photos, and interests.)

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