Facebook Search Engine Overhaul in Works

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I'm glad they are going to do this.

A former Google engineer is leading a team of two dozen Facebook engineers dedicated to creating an improved Facebook search engine that will make it easier for users to more easily find shared or liked articles, videos, and status updates, Bloomberg reported.

This doesn’t sound like Facebook’s attempt to become a traditional information retrieval type of web search engine like Google or Bing, which both crawl and show results for the entire web based on hundreds or thousands of signals and ranking factors. Rather, it seems like this is more a case of Facebook trying to provide better search results within the social network’s walls based on...

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Your thoughts on this? Do you think it's needed?

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It will be gr8 coz lot of ppl are always online in facebook and they need to find thing to share .. so a better search option will be nice for all of us