[trbecker]

Speculation. And a bad idea. Facebook is good in social "notworking", and competing with Google in Google's territory is not a good idea. Since we're in the field of speculation, I predict a huge loss of money.

[colintan]

I agree. Facebook's strategy ought to be to lock down and defend their niche in social networking. The signs seem to indicate a greater emphasis on connecting person to person: I predict more location and mobile-based features, and more aggressive expansion in developing markets.

Only then would a search product make sense, though it would be tempting to rush it out as a partnership with Bing.