Facebook has announced its own internal search engine, which it is calling Graph Search. However, the company will also be incorporating web search results with its new system.
As part of its press event today, Engadget reports that Facebook will be using Microsoft's Bing service which will add web site results alongside Facebook's Graph Search results. Bing will be used if someone using Graph Search on Facebook wants to learn about, for example, the local weather. Those results will come from Bing's engine.
Zuckerberg stated, ""We don't think people will be coming to us exclusively for web search, but we wanted to provide good search results in Graph Search." During a Q&A, Facebook team member Lars Rasmussen stated, "There's an integration between Bing and Graph Search so that Bing picks up when Graph can't deliver relevant results."
