Facebook Tests Surfacing Semantically Related Posts
Facebook is testing a new "mentions" feature which surfaces Pages that a user's friends were discussing, directly or indirectly.
Facebook is testing a new “mentions” feature which surfaces Pages that a user’s friends were discussing, directly or indirectly.
The feature which was first published by Oliver Chiang at Forbes, appears to be an effective way of surfacing semantically related content. The examples displayed by Oliver don’t appear to have explicit references to any given page, instead Facebook has found the most relevant page for a group of posts by him and a friend.
The fact that Facebook is testing the ability to determine what a status update or an article is actually about is significant.
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