Facebook to become a search engine

**InteriorLiving.Com** · 06-12-2010, 12:24 PM

The rumor mill is Facebook will turn into a search engine using the links people have suggested on their profiles and posts.

When you post a link in Facebook your putting your stamp of approval on that link. THe more people who post that link to a paticular site the higher it will rank in facebooks search engine.

There is even talks of facebook using the links as references for instance you may have a friend named gina and when you do a search you might see stuff like gina recommends this site or 5 of your friends recommend it in your search results.

If the rumors are true facebook could become a big search engine overnight.

Digg is also going to be doing something similar in the next 6 months too. Its assumed referal links would make a better search and carry a higher weight than places like google who catalog the content.

Going to be interesting in the coming years.
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UPDATE TO ORIGINAL POST

I found out the deal on this Microsoft BING and FACEBOOK have come to an agreement its a merge of facebook into Microsofts search engine but it plays a role in relevance.

The brief video shows how a small fraction of this works in Bing.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...ple-search.ars

When you search on Bing, you'll see relevant links and results that have been "Liked" by your Facebook friends. This is built on Facebook's public Like platform, and it allows Bing to take advantage of your social network to give you personalized search results.

Bing can also surface people's information based on their relevance to the searcher's Facebook network and friends. Names will be ranked higher if a person shares mutual friends and/or networks with them. Microsoft says four percent of all queries are people search (a billion queries per month) and the satisfaction rate for these results is really low.

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**LRE** · 06-12-2010, 02:00 PM

Hi,
Where did you hear / read this rumor. Do you have some source where you read this ?
Is iot from a well known site that we can trust ?

Thanks
LRE

**maui** · 06-15-2010, 02:04 AM

Interior, can you post a link to where you found that info?

As premature as it sounds, I don't think (based on the description given) that it would be as useful/powerful as it might initially seem. Within those parameters, it would be much easier to manipulate SERPs and before you know it the top results could be all spam. Just my 2 cents.

**InteriorLiving.Com** · 06-15-2010, 04:16 AM

I did and the posts dissapeared.

Diggnation Episode 256 start at 18:20

If your not familiar with the guy talking its Kevin Rose the founder of Digg.com

**InteriorLiving.Com** · 06-15-2010, 06:53 PM

That post looks like it stayed lets try adding the link again

http://revision3.com/diggnation/facebook

Its around 18:20 where they start talking about this.

**Display Houses** · 06-16-2010, 01:04 AM

Well, I think the source should be posted to see if it's a reliable source or not.

**InteriorLiving.Com** · 06-16-2010, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by johnkalli1990

I think it is not possible as Facebook is a social community website.

Kevin talks about this because social networking sites have the ability to make for better search engines than the way search engines/bots crawl the internet and try to determine popularity. Socially recommended sites and the like ability is more reliable than link building, and page rank. Either way Facebook needs to branch out as remaining a social website they will ultimately die out unless they evolve.