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January 28, 2013

Facebook's All About Buying Stuff

Michael Wolff, USA Today


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Facebook's disappointing results in the display advertising business have now led to its efforts to become a search engine, called Graph Search. Among social-media types, real-time search — a dive into any aspect of the occurring moment — has been something of a grail: a kind of responsive collective consciousness, a way to ever monitor the mood of the body politic.

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