Facebook Just Launched A New Feature: Here's How To Protect Your Profile From Unwanted Searches

Facebook's Graph Search feature is rolling out to everyone today. The new search tool lets you to search Facebook's huge amount of data to get consolidated results. Mark Zuckerberg stressed Graph Search's privacy awareness at the big reveal months ago. "Every piece of content has its own audience, most content is not public, and you can only search for content that has been shared with you," Zuckerberg said at the time. Despite this reassurance, you still should take some time to look at your Facebook privacy settings to make sure things you share don't inadvertently show up in search. 

Facebook's New Graph Search Launches Today — Here's How It Works Today, Facebook is finally launching its new Graph Search feature. The new search tool uses your Facebook connections and interests to come up with relevant results for people, photos, places, and interests. These are generally results for which a regular Web search would come up empty — like "places I visited in 2010" or "photos of my friends taken before 1980" or "restaurants my friends like." (In fact, Facebook struggled with naming its new search feature, fearing that anything with "search" in the name would make people think of a Web search engine like Google.) We've been playing with Graph Search for the past few months and its easy to see why naming the product was so hard. This is not Google Web search—it's something completely different. The interface strongly guides users to doing these kinds of searches, responding with plain-English suggestions for questions. Here's what you can expect to experience with Graph Search starting today.

Thanks to Kingsley Bashemi who contributed to this article.