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I understand why Facebook is useful and fun for many, I don’t understand how it could replace a search engine. Facebook can certainly shoulder some traditional
by ugh 16y ago
I understand why Facebook is useful and fun for many, I don’t understand how it could replace a search engine. Facebook can certainly shoulder some traditional search engine tasks – looking for people, say, or asking questions you know your friends can answer – but that is far from the majority of things I use a search engine for.
Just looking at my search history, how can Facebook tell me how many calories 100g pasta with tomato sauce have? How can Facebook tell me how VAT and inflation are connected? Does Facebook know what a clathrate compound is? Is Facebook supposed to know when Civ 5 for the Mac is coming out?
- NZ_Matt 16y agoIt's very possible that Facebook could integrate with Bing.
- ugh 16y agoBing is a search engine. – edit: Just for kicks I only now tried all searches I mentioned above and it seems to me like Facebook is already integrating with Bing in some way. I searched for “100g pasta calories” and three Bing results showed up.
- NZ_Matt 16y agoThat is neat. I guess they don't want to promote this feature too much while it is in their best interests to keep everyone on Facebook. It'd be interesting to see what impact this would have on Bings market share if this feature was made obvious and promoted.
- citizenkeys 16y agoFacebook already integrates with Bing. And Microsoft is a substantial shareholder in Facebook.
- thwarted 16y agoIt's definitely not going to replace a search engine when I'm told that I'm posting and commenting on too much stuff I find on the internet (wide variety, but some of it could answer someone's question like the ones you've suggested) and that my feed is clogging up people's screens. People, at least my connections, are not interested in using facebook for anything other than status updates.