I followed several steps to find the Jan 28th NY Times article that covered Facebook’s newest search tool, Graph Search. The first step I took was to go to Baruch’s Newman Library database. I don’t usually navigate the database search engine so it was a little difficult for me to get started. The first step I took was typing in the key words “NY Times on Facebook graph search” This got me to what i thought was the right article except it was not published by the NY times. Then I typed into Google, “NY times article on graph search Jan 28.” This did not work. I tried several more failed attempts before finally going to the NY Times website. I entered “Facebook” into the search box and then clicked on “past 7 days” before finding the mystery article.

The author of the article is Somini Sengupta, she is a journalist at the NY Times. She is an expert on technology issues. In 2004, she was the recipient of the George Polk Award.

There is a number of other people mentioned in the article. Kathryn Hymes left a masters program. Amy Campbell earned a doctorate in lingustics. Loren Chang also known as the human language processor. Some of the key words used in the article were: “robospeak,” “human- computer interaction,” and “homophily.”