Facebook's long-awaited search feature is set for release for U.S English users sooner rather than later - speculated within 'the coming weeks' by multiple sources. Some accounts will already have the feature from today, July 8th.

The world's most popular social network released a statement to introduce the launch to millions of users.

"This is just the beginning," said the statement. "We're currently working on making it easier for people to search and discover topics, including posts and comments."
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"This is just the beginning," said the statement. "We're currently working on making it easier for people to search and discover topics, including posts and comments."
Read more at http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/07/08/facebook-roll-out-graph-search-us-english-language-users-over-next-few-weeks#HMCYcyIpPek1EUyl.99
"As Graph Search rolls out more widely, everyone on Facebook will see a notice on their home page witha reminder about how to control what they share and with whom," the statement said. "This follows a similar notice in December that highlighted new privacy tools to help people manage what they share on Facebook." 



Integrated with Bing, Graph Search collates all manner of data made public on facebook by its users, in order to (primarily) relay effective and accurate results when searching. The murkier backdrop to the new feature is the concern of privacy, particularly in the wake of the PRISM scandal, as (the secondary purpose of Graph Search) advertisers will mine the Facebook data in order to advertise more effectively. It's how Mark Zuckerberg and friends make their money.

Upon hearing the news, Facebook shares were up 1.3% to $24.68 in early trading.

You can read more about the potential of Graph Search here.