Facebook is no longer showing search results from Microsoft's Bing search engine on its on-site Graph Search product, as Reuters reports.
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Facebook has broken up with Bing, quietly dropping results from the Microsoft search engine as part of this week’s Facebook search update.
The change, reported late today by Reuters, was confirmed by a Facebook spokesperson in an email to Search Engine Land.
“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,” the spokesperson wrote. “We continue to have a great partnership with Microsoft in lots of different areas.”
Facebook search has long been geared toward helping users find other people or information within the social network. But since 2008, Facebook has also served search results from the wider web, first in 2008 with Microsoft’s Live Search, then in 2010 with Bing.
Now Facebook is shifting gears. On Monday it announced an update — for U.S. English language users — that restored the ability for people to search within posts. That, Facebook said, was the No. 1 search-related request from users.
Microsoft owned Bing is the second most popular search engine in the U.S., with almost 20% of the total web searches being attributed to them. Facebook, on the other hand, is today valued at $211 billion. The relationship between the two at the moment can best be described by one word- “COMPLICATED”!
Source: theverge
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