Facebook ditches Microsoft's Bing search engine

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The move is part of Facebook's latest strategy to introduce its own search tools.

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A sensible move. Hopefully Microsoft will follow suit now and introduce a search engine that works outside of the USA :)

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Originally Posted by Spud1

A sensible move. Hopefully Microsoft will follow suit now and introduce a search engine that works outside of the USA :)

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And give it a sensible name....

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Executive Mark Zuckerberg has hinted previously that the vast amount of information Facebook users share could eventually replace the need to search the Web for answers to certain questions.

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If true, then surely those "certain questions" must be pretty restricted. Sure, FB users share a lot of information, but I thought it was all pretty trivial stuff - no "this is the answer to life, the universe and everything" stuff.

I'm just judging on shoulder-surfing others in the house, since I'm a Facebook refusenik.

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Originally Posted by crossy

If true, then surely those "certain questions" must be pretty restricted. Sure, FB users share a lot of information, but I thought it was all pretty trivial stuff - no "this is the answer to life, the universe and everything" stuff.

I'm just judging on shoulder-surfing others in the house, since I'm a Facebook refusenik.

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Facebook to replace web search? I guess if you want BS and misinformation.

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Originally Posted by shaithis

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Originally Posted by crossy

If true, then surely those "certain questions" must be pretty restricted. Sure, FB users share a lot of information, but I thought it was all pretty trivial stuff - no "this is the answer to life, the universe and everything" stuff.

I'm just judging on shoulder-surfing others in the house, since I'm a Facebook refusenik.

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Facebook to replace web search? I guess if you want BS and misinformation.

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Don't forget the trolls.

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Originally Posted by crossy

no "this is the answer to life, the universe and everything" stuff.

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I get what you are trying to say, though you could probably find an answer, though just not one of you'd be satisfied with. And to be fair, I don't you would find a satisfactory answer anywhere, using any search engine ;)

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Originally Posted by TooNice

I get what you are trying to say, though you could probably find an answer, though just not one of you'd be satisfied with. And to be fair, I don't you would find a satisfactory answer anywhere, using any search engine ;)

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I was being sarcastic - for the kinds of searches that I usually do I'm looking for factual information. In which case I really don't see how searching Facebook alone will give anything other than uninformed opinion, wild speculation or overt fanboyism. Remember this is Facebook - a social connection site - not Wikipedia.

Google, and to a less extent Bing, are where they are because they pull in a wide breadth of sources. Actually, I think it's a arrogant of FB to think that they can replace the world wide web with their little corner of it. And if your searches are merely "where is X today" then you probably wouldn't be searching for that anyway - just email/phone/text them instead.

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