I went to Google’s News section. Using ‘advanced search’, I looked for an article containing exact words “new york times” and at least one of these words: facebook, graph, search. Then I specified the date.
Author: Somini Sengupta: previously bureau chief in New Delhi and Dakar for NYT, graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley, specializes in technology issues, received the George Polk Award for foreign reporting in 2004.
Facebook team: Kathryn Hymes, 25, left master’s program in linguistics at Stanford. Amy Campbell, doctorate in linguistics at University of California, Berkeley. Loren Cheng, 39, leader of the “natural language processing” aspect of the project.
Observers: Clifford I. Nass, professor of communication at Stanford specializing in human-computer interaction.
Key Words/Phrases: “real world trust”, “psychology”, “homophily”, “like”, “human-computer interaction”, “diverse, global audience”, “keywords”, “Human behavior is Facebook’s business”.
I thought they gave an interesting explanation for the lack of the “dislike” button…