Facebook announced Graph Search in January and now it's available to all users with settings set to U.S. English. Facebook is also starting to retire its "who can look up my timeline by name?" feature, which it said it would do so in December 2012.
Facebook Graph Search, a way to discover people, interests and more on Facebook, has finally rolled out to all U.S. English users after nearly eight months since its inception.
If you haven’t yet used Graph Search, Facebook in its announcement recapped some scenarios users can take advantage of:
Facebook also said it’s now starting to retire the “who can look up my timeline by name?” feature, as announced back in December 2012:
Everyone used to have a setting called “Who can look up my timeline by name,” which controlled if someone could be found when other people typed their name into the Facebook search bar. The setting was very limited in scope, and didn’t prevent people from finding others in many other ways across the site.
Because of the limited nature of the setting, we removed it for people who weren’t using it, and have built new, contextual tools, along with education about how to use them. In the coming weeks, we’ll be retiring this setting for the small percentage of people who still have it.