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by henrikschroder 5159 days ago
What? How? I'm genuinely curious now. When you search on Facebook you only get results that are Facebook pages. You can't get Wikipedia entries, Stack Overflow questions, other companies' websites, programming language documentation, or anything that's the usual results of what I search for on Google.

What do you generally search for, and how can Facebook serve you relevant hits?
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abhaga 5159 days ago
> When you search on Facebook you only get results that are Facebook pages.

Actually, you can get web search results on Facebook through Bing. It is one of the side tabs on the search page. But I can't imagine many people doing that.

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denniedarko 5159 days ago
Yeah I was aware of this functionality, it's definitely far too clunky for most users though to go through clicking on that at the side of the page when most browsers now allow direct search through the address bar with the search provider of your choice.
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