Thursday, September 13, 2012

9:31 AM

Mark Zuckerberg Techcrunch Disrupt.jpg

Are you guys waiting for a Facebook Search Engine? Did you hear, finally, it’ll arrive and it will eventually do search. The Facebook CEO interview (Mark Zuckerberg), he said they will do it at some point, by it, means search. Zuckerberg said that Facebook is doing a billion searches per day, “and we’re not even trying.

Users most searches are, as we have listened in the past, truly people looking for other people. But there are also searches for brands. “There’s a big chance there,” Zuckerberg said, of going beyond people search.


Here are some quotes from Mark:
Facebook is pretty uniquely positioned to answer the queries people have. At some point we'll do it. We have a team working on it.
Search engines are really developing to give you a set of answers, ‘I have a specific question, answer this question for me.

Fireside Chat With Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg


Note: I listened Zuckerberg has saying Facebook does on the order of a quarter billion searches per day, but various other outlets are saying he said one billion per day. I've updated my content to that figure until I can double-check with the eventual video.