'Pics of My Homies', and Artificial Intelligence at Facebook

This isn't exactly a surprise of course. Facebook's traffic is about the same as Google's and the competition between Facebook and Google+ regardless of whether Google+ is 'a social network or not is indisputable. So after I searched for pics of my homies from my desktop I logged into a computer in California and searched for pics of my homies again from there. Facebook thought I was still in New York. It knows this because my profile says so and it also knows it because when I sit at my desk and conduct a search Facebook knows where I am by looking at my IP address. But when you think about the idea of conducting a search for pictures of your friends then if geography is being assigned automatically it makes more sense to search by your current location rather than by an entry in a database. That's why they created Facebook Graph a new way of searching Facebook that when it works right is a pretty neat tool.  Read more