Today, Facebook is rolling out Graph Search, a much-anticipated social search feature, to all users of its US website.
At first, everyone will use the the tool to check up on whatever happened to their teenage sweethearts. But eventually they may use it to research travel plans.
Hotels first
Hotels are likely to be immediately affected by Graph Search, which pulls personalized results to natural-language (or semantic) queries from content that has been shared on Facebook.
The reason: Graph Search debuts with many limitations, and hotels are one of the few travel products that will be easily searchable today, despite those limitations.
Enough users have “liked” hotels to produce meaningful results in the typical user’s social network. Plus, Facebook’s default introduction to Graph Search singles out hotel recommendations as one of the functions it performs well. Read more
Published in: http://www.tnooz.com
By: Sean O’Neill
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