During the Facebook Q4 earnings call earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg hinted that Graph Search for mobile devices is in development, though he wouldn't go into specifics about when it would launch. "Pretty soon," he said, "I think you should expect us to roll out the mobile version of this." It turns out the company is already in the process of testing the functionality, and some users are already seeing the changes.
Mashable reporter Seth Fiegerman noticed the change earlier today and posted a screenshot on Twitter:
Judging from the image, users may soon be able to conduct the same searches for people, places, and timeframes on their phones as they're able to do on the desktop. A Facebook representative later confirmed with The Verge that the company has indeed started a small test of the navigation for mobile Graph Search. The move jibes well with Facebook's ambitions — the company already plans to release a whole suite of apps for smartphones in 2014. Graph Search, with its potential to become a powerful mobile search product, may well become a major part of that rollout.
Comments
I wonder what happened to the new Newsfeed update.
By cadtek91 on 02.01.14 11:34pm
It’s coming! Will take Zuckerberg a few years to change the html template in Microsoft Frontpage for each of the profiles. /s
By Jack Bauerr on 02.01.14 11:37pm
The worst bit is when you signed up for the beta and 30-40% of your friends who didn’t have it already.
By huwEVANS on 02.02.14 1:02am
I know right! Don’t even get me started…
By Damo_S15 on 02.02.14 1:27am
We might as well missed something and signed up for postponing the update so we do get it… last.
By CKowalski on 02.02.14 11:13am
yah, my news feed is still filled up with clutter
By dick wyn on 02.02.14 1:02am
They axed it because it didn’t test well, apparently. I thought it was really nice and can’t have imagined myself liking it less than the current version…
By thisistomok on 02.02.14 2:22am
They’re coming, the dragons are coming. And so is the pizza. Oh and the Newsfeed update is coming, it’s on the way and it’s going to be glorious!
By Phoenix0 on 02.03.14 5:58am
Seriously? I don’t even have the desktop version that I signed up for a hundred years ago. What in the world is going on?
By BlackHelmetMan on 02.01.14 11:41pm
Change your language to English (US). I made this mistake and was wondering where it was for months.
By huwEVANS on 02.02.14 1:01am
A cloud service could have fragmentation too! Who knew!
By meelahi on 02.02.14 1:03am
Savior! Where have you been all my life?
By BlackHelmetMan on 02.02.14 2:14am
Such a simple solution :) Thanks a lot… I have been waiting for this for months.
If only there was a way to get the new news feed………….
By deuxani on 02.02.14 5:27am
Even English (UK) works
By pratnala on 02.02.14 5:37am
Not for me. Been on English (UK) the entire time…
By CKowalski on 02.02.14 11:15am
I have it, I just thought everyone got it.
By GVLsandlapper on 02.01.14 11:45pm
I swore the cover image was a lightsaber fight.
By socca1157 on 02.01.14 11:52pm
I’ve never seen graph search in real life.
By octodolphin on 02.01.14 11:58pm
Me too. I understand they axed the new newsfeed (which is a shame. Such a big company and still such an ugly, badly coded site…), but what happened to Graph Search? It was announced even before the new newsfeed and i got in line on the first day. Still haven’t got it and don’t know anyone who has. I don’t get it – if it exist, they can just deploy for everyone with the click of a button, can’t they? It’s not that i’d actually use it, i’m just wondering about how they run their business…
By cargath on 02.02.14 5:19am
Your language should be English (US) or English (UK)
By pratnala on 02.02.14 5:38am
They should first start to roll it out on all desktop users.
By chrismarle on 02.02.14 12:22am
By KevinMXoom on 02.02.14 1:41am
Does anyone’s graph search have post search yet? Mine keeps saying it doesn’t support searching posts “yet”. For me that would be the most useful function; I have no use for graphs search’s current functions.
By Virge on 02.02.14 2:29am
Zuckerberg Is using dreamviewer to make each of those pages for everybody. certainly will take time.
By roh.mish on 02.02.14 6:05am
I have to admit i’ve never actually used Graph Search for any of its features. It just never occurs to me use Facebook search in that way… and it seems Zuckerberg’s view of the product is about the same (based on the recent interview).
By Shahe on 02.02.14 2:56am