by Tom Simonite, Technology Review
When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg mentioned during an interview last month that he wanted to build a search engine, headline writers instantly put Google on notice. Yet, while Larry and Sergey are probably watching closely, the technology and data at Facebook’s disposal suggest the company will most likely create something fundamentally different from Google’s search service. Facebook lacks the comprehensive index of the Web that it would need to equal Google’s ability to match queries with Web pages—and it would have to invest a lot to create one.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429427/why-facebooks-search-engine-wont-be-anything-like/
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