EnterTheVoid Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 Got off the waiting list, had a try of the new feature and first impressions, wow, that is one awesome piece of engineering. No wonder Facebook hires the best engineers, computer scientists and software programmers in the business.
EnterTheVoid Posted March 8, 2013 Author Posted March 8, 2013 Some obscure travel photos a friend posted from two years back, it was able to find it in less than 5 seconds. ****, that is impressive
Crookbond Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/ :hatsoff:
EnterTheVoid Posted March 8, 2013 Author Posted March 8, 2013 You really have to be a Computer Science/Software Engineering god to pull off something this unique. I just can't imagine the terbaytes of data the search has to trawl through to find the information the user is looking for, that too, in such a short amount of time. Working in a company like this would be an absolute dream.
Crookbond Posted March 8, 2013 Posted March 8, 2013 I don't think there is any Computer Science 'marvel' in these graph searches - they are simplistic. It is more a Software Engineering challenge and Facebook has stood up to it. Yes, Facebook is a dream company these days to work with, a reason why a lot of famous Social Network scientists like Lada Adamic are associated with Facebook. http://www.ladamic.com/
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