Four ask Facebook map search: Can you understand the true dialogue?

Lead: Foreign media wrote in Monday that as Facebook's social-graph search is geared toward more users, some of the questions about the product are becoming a concern: can it understand what we mean? Would it violate privacy? Facebook's full text: Facebook search will be launched today for hundreds of millions of English users, the first major search service for the social networking site that closed most of Google's data. Facebook boasts that this powerful search tool will bring the gospel to users, which would entice them to stay longer on the site and bring more benefits to advertisers. Therefore, this will be a win-lose measure. But like many technology products, Facebook's new search tool has previously launched a crappy developer version. The company hopes that we will still be able to continue to use this product during the improvement of the Atlas search, which is indeed possible. However, there are several questions about the Atlas search: 1. Can you learn to understand us? Some think that with the Facebook search, people just need to ask questions like a real person. If you can start a real dialogue search, it will give Facebook a huge advantage, because Google's search tools can only use keywords. But this so-called natural language processing technology has to reach a very advanced level to really play a role, and early reports show that Facebook's natural language understanding ability is very poor, even the most stupid people can easily understand, it may not be able to understand. Facebook, for example, does not understand "surfers," "Surfers," and "surfing enthusiasts" refers to the same group of people. Of course, the initial performance of such systems is usually worse, but as the data increases, it will gradually improve. The same reason that Apple's Siri has not met many people's expectations. On the other hand, has Siri improved significantly now? I haven't noticed yet. So far, Facebook's task should be simpler than Apple's, after all, it uses Facebook's own data and labels. If you want to mining data on the entire network, you will inevitably encounter a lot of strange, difficult to understand content, so as to increase task difficulty. 2. Can you extract the most relevant information? For many Facebook users, the purpose of recurring visits to Facebook is to view and update the news feed stream. Once browsed, it is difficult to search again. But earlier versions of the Atlas search would not include status updates, so a lot of information would be lost and, of course, there would be a lot of valuable data to be mined. The information of the Atlas search will depend very much on the preferences that people Express. Of course, as everyone knows, there is a difference between the likes and dislikes that are expressed in social networks like Facebook. The reason you click the Like button on the site mayFor many different reasons. 3. Can you break through the Facebook category? If the Atlas search is to have a real role to play, it will have to break out of Mark Zuckerberg's walled garden. The social network's strength lies in its breadth, but its depth is problematic. Many of the most interesting questions must be answered with the help of data from other websites. Does my friend in Cleveland like the Bone Thugs-n-harmony band? Spotify may know the problem better than Facebook. Which restaurant does my brother like best? Seamless's answer may be most plausible. Which book do my college friends like best? Goodreads can answer. Of course, there are some questions to be turned to Google, such as how High is the NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar? While some of the data can be obtained through Facebook's assets such as Instagram, it is always tempting to turn to major rivals. 4. Will it violate privacy? Every new service that Facebook launches will inevitably spark privacy concerns. Since the aim of the Atlas search is to help people extract useful information from massive amounts of data, it will inevitably affect the anonymity policies that many users prefer. Facebook also plans to lure advertisers with the product. Like most Facebook tools, privacy settings can circumvent potential threats. But Facebook is not immune to criticism. However, given recent history, vague privacy concerns are not enough to prevent people from using a free internet service. (PEI)