3Q EARNINGS CALL: Why Graph Search?

Last week, Ashoat Tevosyan, an engineer on Facebook’s search quality and ranking team, discussed the nuts and bolts behind adding posts to Graph Search. Wednesday, during the social network’s third-quarter earnings call, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the reasoning behind the effort.

Last week, Ashoat Tevosyan, an engineer on Facebook’s search quality and ranking team, discussed the nuts and bolts behind adding posts to Graph Search. Wednesday, during the social network’s third-quarter earnings call, Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about the reasoning behind the effort.

Responding to a question from RBC Capital Markets Analyst Mark Mahaney, he said:

To your question about how do we make the knowledge that’s been shared in Facebook more useful, the first thing we needed to do is just index it all and build the infrastructure to start being able to use it in different ways.

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