The steps I took to find the article were to search for specific keywords about the article that I knew such as the date, facebook and new york times. With the help of Google being my go-to search engine, I entered in the following “article facebook search tool jan 28”, although it was not the first option they gave me it was close to second.

The author is Somini Sengupta, who is based in San Francisco, covers technology issues. She was previously The Times’s bureau chief in New Delhi and Dakar and was the recipient of the 2004 George Polk Award for foreign reporting. She was born in Calcutta and grew up in Canada and California. She graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

People mentioned in the article:

Kathryn Hymes – left a masters linguistics program in Standford to join this team, her goal was to create a natural, intuitive language.

Clifford I. Nass – a professor of communication at Stanford who specializes in human-computer interaction

Loren Cheng – led the natural language processing part of the project, said the search engine had to adjust to the demands of users.

 Keywords/Ideas

It explains why there is a “like” button but not a “dislike” button; negative emotions turn people away.

Teach Facebook’s computers how to communicate better with people.

Facebook constantly tests and tweaks its features for its diverse, global audience, paying close attention to the responses.