Facebook Offers Live Search Results
Posted on 11. Oct, 2008 by Theo in News
On the one year anniversary of Microsoft’s investment in Facebook the two companies announce a strategic partnership that involves… what else but search. According to the Facebook Blog:
We’re always working on innovative ways to make your experience on Facebook more useful. Toward that goal, today we’ve added Microsoft Live Search to your Facebook search experience (for people in the US). This is the first step in giving you the ability to find content from across the web while using Facebook.
It is also the first step in expanding Microsoft’s search reach. This move should have been expected to some extend. Now Facebook offers both display/banner and search ads, gets to keep visitors within the Facebook environment a little longer, and adds a revenue stream from the text ads displayed when someone performs a Web search.
Sounds like a win-win here.