Facebook drops Bing for search, nobody bats an eyelid

If Facebook drops a search provider, but nobody cared, did it really happen? Reuters reported late Friday that Facebook ended a deal with Microsoft to show Bing web results in its search engine. Apparently, the deal ended “a while ago” but nobody noticed. Facebook’s search function used Bing to show results whenever it wasn’t able to provide its own results for the last few years, but as the company moves into building its own social search product, it doesn’t need such a partnership. The company said in a statement that “We’re not currently showing web search results in Facebook Search because we’re…
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