Facebook Drops Bing Search Results 33
New submitter mrflash818 writes Facebook has dumped search results from Microsoft's Bing after the social networking giant earlier this week launched its own tool for finding comments and other information. According to Reuters, Facebook confirmed the move Friday. TechCrunch, drawing on the same Reuters story as VentureBeat, says "The report says that Facebook’s new search tool will give users the ability to filter through old comments and other information from friends. Facebook has been building out its search products for a long time, using Bing as an extra layer to provide results beyond the Interest Graph in an effort to avoid letting rival Google into the system."
Oh Goodie (Score:1, Insightful)
I can't wait to hear the next juicy soap opera installment of As The Facebook Turns!
Knowing Facebook dropped Bing is about as relevant to daily life as knowing that a celebrity got a divorce. Not my business. Do. Not. Care.
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No, this seems like very relevant and horrible news, at least to this Slashdotter. I do NOT(!) use Facebook, but my family loves it, posting photos and all that shit. Now I need to be worried about about how I am perceived via the Facebook Walled Garden(tm) to perspective employers doing requisite background checks, since I work in I.T. Like I didn't have enough genuine concerns given my field, market, and knowledge.
Facebook sucks.
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Screw all that baggage you bring up. Who cares?
I like products that use local versions of Google where I can start my search and suggestions come up and stuff.
Facebook search is as useless as tits on a boar hog. There's a lot of information in my personal world of Facebook and I'd like to be able to find it.
When I go to look for stuff, I sure as hell don't spend any time doing a goddam background check on the designers of the fucking engine.
That's another time-sucking hobby for those who are interested and
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That's because you experienced it using bing. Now try it with native Facebook technology! It's great!
Facebook search is horrible (Score:5, Insightful)
Even trying to do a very simple thing, like search through all past facebook messages or group posts for a given word, is essentially impossible.
I dont know where Facebook thinks they are going with their "graph search", but as of today it is absolutely horrible.
Google is no better, with complete inability to search through Hangouts history without going into GMail of all places. You would think a search company would do better.
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Yeah, I have several friends who will post/share things on their wall to "find later." Yeah, there's pretty much no way you're going to find that later unless you manually scroll through pages and pages of old posts. Finding stuff on FB is darned near impossible, with their "search" being woefully inadequate. I copy off to Evernote when I can, though FB has taken the genius step of disabling copy (and paste, for some odd reason) in Android, which means running FB in a mobile browser if I really want to arch
Facebook searches do NOT show everything (Score:3)
Yeah, I have several friends who will post/share things on their wall to "find later." Yeah, there's pretty much no way you're going to find that later unless you manually scroll through pages and pages of old posts. Finding stuff on FB is darned near impossible, with their "search" being woefully inadequate.
It's worse than you thought. Weeks ago, my mother was looking for a conversation with someone who had passed away. I found that there's some sort of threshold problem snatching older posts (or certain categories of user conversations) out of userland.
First: I may be in the dark as a non-member, but neither Facebook's GUI and search tools nor my mother as a user have clear ideas of post categories. To find a keyword and look for the proper search option, it was a pain having to grill her just to find if she
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I find it hard to believe that the reason for Facebook's poor search is incompetence (although I won't dismiss it out of hand). Doing a decent search through a set of local records isn't rocket science. I would think it might take a programmer a couple of months, and they have thousands of developers and billions of dollars to play with. Instead, my guess is that they make the search perform poorly on purpose, to force you to scroll through pages and pages and thus view more ads.
Disclaimer: I no longer
the graph emperor has no clothes (Score:2)
One of the problems nowadays is that people put too much stock into fancy graph databases. They build apps on top of those because it's easier to persist data from a developer's point of view (no data model, no need for an ORM, no need to learn sql), but then things like search become almost impossible to do without complex and unreliable algorithms.
There's no magic. Searching requires a decent data model and a reliable indexing/partioning scheme. Young developers should stop jerking off with Big O notation
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That's not what Big Data means. Big Data is about finding patterns or trends in a large amount of possibly unstructured data. A simple search is a totally different scenario.
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the LIKE %abc% part makes it a bit difficult on the index, but overall, yeah, I totally agree with the general idea.
FB is not Google. They don't have to index the entire internet. All they have to do is let people search in the data they've entered in 3-4 different fields. How the fuck can they fail at this.
Bing? (Score:1)
They were using Bing? How quaint.
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Sorry dude but Myspace is not coming back. Let it go.
Bing marketshare (Score:4, Interesting)
It is my guess that this dropping of Bing by Facebook will erode Bing's search marketshare, which was only ~18%, according to a 2013 article.
http://www.searchenginejournal... [searchenginejournal.com]
So totally awesome (Score:2)
I love that it's impossible to get Facebook results when searching Google, I don't want to deal with Facebook anyway.
BEST. ACCIDENTAL GIFT. EVER.
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I have a -wikipedia suffix in my search macro in FF. Works pretty well.
Speaking of searching old posts... (Score:3)
Does Slashdot offer the ability to search out and read a user's posts going back to this site's inception?
Now to take it out of Thunderbird (Score:2)
In a particularly lame move, somebody put Bing search into Thunderbird. When searching your emails, you can also get irrelevant web search results via Bing. What the use case is for that I have no idea.
Facebook has search? (Score:1)
Facebook has search? Wait... is that for searching your posts for info, or is it like a Google search engine?