maSnun's logs » bing http://masnun.com/blog Personal Blog of maSnun Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:33:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Facebook uses Bing for web search http://masnun.com/blog/2009/08/12/facebook-uses-bing-for-web-search/ http://masnun.com/blog/2009/08/12/facebook-uses-bing-for-web-search/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:30:57 +0000 masnun http://masnun.com/2009/08/12/facebook-uses-bing-for-web-search/ Continue reading →]]> Have you checked out the new Facebook search page recently? Facebook has added a good number of search options including the abilities to search your connections, people and posts of your friends.

There’s an additional “web search” option that lets you search the web from inside Facebook. This very search engine is being powered by Microsoft’s Bing.com.

Bing.com claims itself to be a decision engine that replaced the old Live search. I don’t know why Facebook went for Bing, may be Microsoft has negotiated to popularize Bing by interacting with the best social networking site on the internet.

Let’s see how far Bing and Facebook goes together.

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