Facebook has silently removed Bing as its primary search engine.
The social media giant has pulled Bing search from its Graph Search platform in exchange for its own search tool that will allow users to find information about friends’ posts and comments.
Previously, Facebook was using Bing to facilitate the search function as its built-in search engine, allowing the social media users to look for more information about their friends. Selecting Bing as a partner was also a way for Facebook to keep rival Google’s search engine away from the social network.
The move comes as Facebook strengthens its other search tools. Recently, the company has updated the method to search for old Facebook posts. It also changed its trending news section, which makes it easier to find news, and read different perspectives on the day’s most popular stories. Furthermore, it also updated a Twitter-like live feed that includes user mentions.
Zuckerberg stated that search is one of Facebook’s main focuses to fuel growth, noting that 1 billion search requests are entered into the site each day.
“There is more than a trillion posts, which some of the search engineers on the team like to remind me, is bigger than any web search corpus out there.”