[nocarrier]

I'm former FB. To your search question, I hope they build a high quality, accurate search product someday, but they've made a few attempts at search over the years and none of them have really panned out so far. Graph search was retired this year and now it's hard to discover things with search even when you know what you're looking for. And even before, graph search wasn't that accurate, it often didn't include posts in the results that it should have. It's a hard problem, but I think FB could solve it if they want to.

[ChuckMcM]

It is absolutely a solvable problem technically, it's entirely cultural at this point[1]. The good news for FB is that they can kill Google just by squeezing its margins[2]. So they don't "need" search, but it will be the difference between what happens next at Microsoft.

There is a point where, like IBM and MySpace and any other market leaders get too far behind the margin curve, it results in a systemic collapse. That happens because the environment changes faster than management can change the company. I haven't figured out entirely what causes some companies to re-invent themselves (Dell, IBM) and others to become someone else's lawn ornament (Yahoo!, AOL).

[1] "they've made a few attempts at search over the years and none of them have really panned out so far." -- which is exactly the symptom of a cultural or organizational impediment.

[2] Bing is helping too of course.

[eru]

Might be luck. But also for eg IBM: they were always in the business of servicing businesses. Hardware was just one way to do that, and weren't many mainframes leased instead of sold?

[paulpauper]

yeah the search function is pretty bad I have noticed . It's hard to get relevant chronological results.

[alttab]

They recently pushed a video to people's timelines highlighting the search feature. I wonder if they made any improvements or if it was a marketing play.