Facebook is the largest social network on the globe, and recently CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a decision that affects the user experience of hundreds of millions of people who use the service daily. More precisely, the American company decided to gather information from the Bing search engine, owned by Microsoft, to display results for searches made using the Open Graph search engine available for global use for more than a year.
In 2007, Microsoft bought 1.6% of the company Facebook, at the same time concluding a collaboration agreement with it for the implementation of results from the Bing search engine, the agreement being renewed in 2010, but canceled this year. Facebook the intention of years to become an important "player" in the search engine segment, and the action taken recently allows it to use its own search platform to display results inside Facebook.com, competing directly with Google and Microsoft.
We're not currently showing web search results in Facebook Search because we're focused on helping people find what's been shared with them on Facebook. We continue to have a great partnership with Microsoft in lots of different areas. There are more than a trillion posts, which some of the search engineers on the team like to remind me, is bigger than any Web search corpus out there.
Facebook has invested billions of dollars and years of research and development to perfect its search platform, which for now is limited only to existing information on Facebook.com, but this will change in the future. Those from Facebook will bring the Open Graph search system to mobile platforms in the extremely near future and thus they will expand their user base to be able to further improve their algorithms regarding the display of content search results within their own network.
