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by indigoviolet 5637 days ago
You know what would be cool? If the author went to www.facebook.com, found the rather prominent input box on top called 'Search', and tried putting something in it.

There's a lot that can be improved, but Facebook already has a search engine. One that even produces Bing results, like the OP wants.
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paraschopra 5637 days ago
I'm talking about searching the web, not my social network.
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indigoviolet 5637 days ago
That box searches the web. It even uses Bing.
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paraschopra 5637 days ago
I'm sorry but I still can't spot it. Tried searching for something and it returned my friends updates.

Even if it is there, I don't think there is as much emphasis/focus on this feature as there should be. I notice you work for Facebook so it will be great to hear from you what you think about focusing on web search as a central strategy.

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indigoviolet 5637 days ago
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=foo

'Web Results' in the left hand column. I agree with you about emphasis/focus.

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revorad 5636 days ago
In the UK, I see the web results below the Facebook results, right at the bottom of the page. Almost impossible to notice.
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zaidf 5637 days ago
The Facebook-Bing deal might be geo-targeted and not show up from India where Paras is located.
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paraschopra 5637 days ago
No, I spot it now. But I wonder how many people actually realize that you can search the web from within Facebook. It almost looks like a side-feature while I argue that it should be a central feature of Facebook.
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skbohra123 5637 days ago
Interestingly enough, how you made a complete post without actually verifiying the issue .

And as a side note, how do you manage to get all your posts hitting to HN homepage?

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paraschopra 5637 days ago
Yeah, agree I did not verify but it wasn't an obvious feature and I think my argument is still valid -- Facebook could use search as its central strategy.

As far as HN homepage is concerned, I don't know ranking internals but I think it is probably timezone issue -- as of writing this comment, the submission has just 7 upvotes and is still on homepage.

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indigoviolet 5637 days ago
This is a possibility, I'd have to ask around to see it is the case. If so, I apologize for the snarky tone in my first comment.
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retube 5637 days ago
He means web search.
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