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What are new applications that could use social search?
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Social Search is a type of web search that takes into account the social network of the person searching. Results produced by a social search engine gives more visibility to content created or touched by users in the person's social network. Facebook, with its robust social graph, is uniquely positioned to provide users with the best social search results.

Deliverables

1) Under what circumstances are social search results most relevant to a mobile user?

2) What is a mobile application that could be built that leverages social search for that specific situation?

    Submissions will be graded on the following criteria:
  • Meets Deliverables
  • Creativity
  • Clarity
Reward Tiers
5 Winners
will receive $150 each
5 Honorable Mentions
will receive $50 each
Leaderboard
$150.00 Michael McCarthy University of Illinois
$150.00 parin maru Rochester Institute of Technology
$150.00 Robert Marshall University of Michigan
$150.00 Abhipray Sahoo Rice University
$150.00 Nicholas DiStefano University of Pennsylvania
$50.00 Reid Spitz Stanford University
$50.00 David Ju University of California at Berkeley
$50.00 Jenny Mi University of California at Berkeley
$50.00 Vikrant Goel University of Pennsylvania
$50.00 Lauren Lutz Johns Hopkins University
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