Facebook, Microsoft Team Up Against Google 297
Pickens writes "In a move that could be the biggest threat to Google's search standing yet, Microsoft and Facebook announced that they're teaming up for social search. When someone uses Bing's search engine to look for a new car or a book, she can see which ones her friends liked. While industry watchers say this is an interesting move for search, what's most notable is that Facebook turned to Microsoft for this deal and not to the market leader, Google. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there is a specific reason he wants to go with Bing: 'They really are the underdog here. They're incentivized to go out and innovate. They have all these smart people and are trying to do all these new things.' The real importance of this week's announcement is that it highlights the growing strategic conflict between Facebook and Google, says analyst Ray Valdes. 'There is a battle for the future of the Web, and it is not about search engines, but about the social Web.'"
Re:People use Bing? (Score:3, Informative)
Bing is utter crap.
Why? Seems to work pretty well for me.
Ahem - "surely people with the smallest amount of common sense don't use Google more than they can help because of fears of how much data is being gathered by Google". I contend that's just as legitimate/silly an issue.
Re:People use Bing? (Score:3, Informative)
Still, it does seem simple to insert a tag to force IE8 to render in IE7mode. It would let everyone upgrade to IE8 on their PCs, which has to be worth some bonus points.
The EmulateIE7 tag below forces IE8 to render in IE7 mode (when enclosed in proper brackets)
meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"
Re:People use Bing? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Plus. (Score:4, Informative)
Re:ok, Facebook geeks, help me out... (Score:3, Informative)
No, Facebook doesn't need to be an IM network and I don't need to be on Facebook. If you like it, I have no problem with that. I was just stating the only reason I could imagine that I might sign up.
See my earlier response why I hate it [slashdot.org], since you asked...