Predicting “Graph Search” a year ago  

Today, on Facebook’s Engineering blog Lars Rasmussen writes:

In 2011, Zuck asked the search team to design and build a new system that would recreate the ability to search the entire social graph.

Then in February 2012 Zuck posted this photograph on his News Feed:

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But I noticed something was different about his screen:

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Being forever curious, I replicated what I saw on Zuck’s screen in an effort to understand where Facebook intended to go. So I created this:

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A year later Facebook introduces this:

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Story of my life.

 
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