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I completely agree with you, which is why the very next sentence is, "I think the next generation of finding things on the internet is going to require the use of both ends of the spectrum..."

You need both intent and relevance. Intent comes from search, relevance comes from you and your social graph.

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I agree with a lot of what you're saying, too. E.g. I think your insight into Google's main challenges being design problems and the "Innovator's Dilemma"-type of problems that Google has now are very significant.

Personally, I would have preferred Google to have gone in a different direction, pushing more open protocols and standards, letting the Web bloom entire rain forests and sorting through those jungles for the rest of us. Creating yet another silo seems like "now you have three problems".

But I don't really see how Facebook's any better off.

I sort of see now that you were just responding to Page's sentiments, it seemed a bit one-sided.

The fun will begin when facebook uses Bing's index and their UI/engineering expertise to launch a _serious_ Google search competitor. I for one am ready, though I think facebook will probably take another few years before getting to it.

Does anyone have any idea how much traffic Bing gets from their integration in the facebook search?

Would be interesting to know on what scale they are already capturing this type of intent & relevance search traffic. I'm guessing from the fact they integrated web search back in 2008, and it's not been made more prominent since, not a huge amount.

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