The genesis of Facebook’s Graph Search

This morning Facebook announced its latest salvo in the battle for web dominance: Graph Search. Using the tremendous amount of data on the company’s servers as a resource, Graph Search lets users find restaurants they may like, people they might want to know, and more — all based off natural-language searches. Wired takes a look at the origins of the new feature, from Mark Zuckerberg’s first pitch to former-Googler Lars Rasmussen, to how Graph Search helped inspire changes to Facebook’s search bar design. If you’re interested in knowing where one of our most significant web properties thinks search is going, it’s well worth a read.