Facebook’s mystery press event revealed on Tuesday a robust search feature that may intensify competition between the social networking giant and its rival Google Inc. The social network announced “Graph Search” Tuesday with hopes of making its users more connected than ever. The Facebook search engine will allow users to search for things such as content that has been shared with them, or connections ...

Facebook and Google users: Your social media and online life is about to change, and there’s almost nothing you can do about it. Facebook is rolling out Timeline, a scrapbook-like profile page that gathers every post a user has made and arranges them by year, while Google is making changes to its privacy policies that some see as the latest attack against Internet users. Google announced it ...

 By Bret Taylor We are hosting our fourth f8 conference today in San Francisco, where we’re introducing the the next evolution of Facebook Platform and the Open Graph. The Open Graph is the most significant update to Platform since it launched in 2007, expanding the capabilities and opportunities for social apps, from music to TV to news to lifestyle apps such as cooking, fitness, and travel. We ...

  Overview: Your Timeline is a new type of profile that lets you better express yourself, discover new things throughfriends, and control how you tell your story. Product Details:1) Cover  – Your cover is the first thing people see when they visit your Timeline. It’s an open space for you to fill with an image that represents you. Think of it like the cover of a book or an album. 2) Timeline ...

Today, we’re announcing a new version of our Advertising Guidelines that we hope are simpler, better organized and more intuitive. We gave the guidelines a makeover, in part to address the valuable feedback we’ve received from our users, advertisers, and developers. Although most of the revisions are organizational, we’ve also made a couple of substantive changes worth noting: First, ...

After launching a Profile redesign in December, Facebook released design and feature changes to Pages today, bringing them up to date with a new design that features photos. The result? Page owners now have more reach and utility across the platform. One of the biggest changes is the ability for Page administrators to be logged in as the Page itself, which enables them to comment on behalf of the Page ...

Another week, another Facebook controversy — this time, over the site’s just-relaunched “Groups” feature, which lets you create instant private or public spaces for your friends, co-workers, fellow hobbyists, you name it. Personally, I think the idea behind the new Groups feature is an excellent one. By designating smaller circles of friends within your overall list of Facebook pals ...