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Facebook Drops Bing Search Results
New submitter mrflash818 writes Facebook has dumped search results from Microsoft's Bing after the social networking giant earlier this week launched its own tool for finding comments and other information. According to Reuters, Facebook confirmed the move Friday. TechCrunch, drawing on the same Reuters story as VentureBeat, says "The report says that Facebook’s new search tool will give users the ability to filter through old comments and other information from friends. Facebook has been building out its search products for a long time, using Bing as an extra layer to provide results beyond the Interest Graph in an effort to avoid letting rival Google into the system."
I can't wait to hear the next juicy soap opera installment of As The Facebook Turns!
Knowing Facebook dropped Bing is about as relevant to daily life as knowing that a celebrity got a divorce. Not my business. Do. Not. Care.
Even trying to do a very simple thing, like search through all past facebook messages or group posts for a given word, is essentially impossible.
I dont know where Facebook thinks they are going with their "graph search", but as of today it is absolutely horrible.
Google is no better, with complete inability to search through Hangouts history without going into GMail of all places. You would think a search company would do better.