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I wonder how easy (or mostly not-easy) it would be for Facebook to build a search engine: While Facebook have some smart people (and part of the data already),
by PanMan 14y ago
I wonder how easy (or mostly not-easy) it would be for Facebook to build a search engine: While Facebook have some smart people (and part of the data already), I think Google has more people working on search, than facebook has altogether. And while Google makes it look easy, building a good search engine is not an easy thing. Look at how much Bing spends.
- manuelflara 14y agoThey should buy DuckDuckGo and turn it into "Facebook Search". If that happens, though, say goodbye to "unbiased, unfiltered search results" :-)
- Zirro 14y agoSince DDG uses results from other search engines, and one of their main selling points is the "unbiased, unfiltered search results", I fail to see what Facebook would be buying in that case.
- NolF 14y agoDDG has its own index, you get offered bing/google when there is too few results from DDG. Even when you click bing/google, it is anonymized, so the results are not skewed by the info the search engines have on you.