Thursday, October 4, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg's search ambitions are Google-sized


(Credit: CNET )

Ever since Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt last month and mentioned that Facebook was working on search, there's been plenty of speculation about just how that will play out. The examples Zuckerberg gave to illustrate how search might work suggested a potentially powerful version of question-and-answer sites such as Quora with a mixture of Yelp, the reviews site. (Here's CNET's take.)


Facebook, Zuckerberg argued, is "uniquely positioned" to answer such questions as, "What sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York in the last six months and Liked?" Or, "Which of my friends or friends of friends work in a company I might like to work at?'"


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