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Facebook released today a new feature (rumored some months ago) which lets users search the web through their Facebook global search box by integrating Microsoft Live Search.

This is a major feature which will leverage Microsoft Live Search engine and bring it to their enormous user base. Moreover, as AllFacebook.com highlights, the implications in terms of revenues for Facebook are going to be very important, becoming the most important bridge between users and Microsoft search engine with the additional ability to show ads which are relevant to the user’s profile.

I guess Facebook is deploying this new feature across its user base slowly, as usual, since on my account I’m still unable to get access to this feature (UPDATE: after some refreshes, I can see it now). In any case, I bet this will become the major news in the following hours.

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I’m trying to force myself to use the new search engine Cuil more and more, but at the end of the day the story is always the same: NO RELEVANCE.

Let’s try this: what is the most relevant link if I search for my name on a search engine? I don’t have any doubt, MY BLOG.

Ok, let’s see what happens.

Google

The results provide by Google make a lot of sense. My blog is the result #1 with the About page shown just below so that if someone wants to get information about myself can easily find what he is looking for. Very good.

Live Search

Live Search’s results are not bad, with my about page above my blog. The strange thing is that the eComm page when there is my bio as one of the speakers of the conference is the #1 result. I would say that I prefer Google, but the relevance of these results is still very high.

Yahoo

The result #1 with Yahoo is my about page, above the blog home page. It’s fine, it works very well, definitely as good as the Google one.

Altavista

I don’t know if there are people still using Altavista, anyway the results provided by this search engine are exactly like those by Yahoo. Very good.

Cuil

Last but not least, here is Cuil. Ok, where is my blog? Where is my about page? The first results are two posts by Jeff Pulver then a news by Jajah, then all the posts written by Alec Saunders with the tag “luca filigheddu” and so on. Relevance equals to ZERO. The worst one.

All that said, where do they want to go? Who can ever think to switch from any of the search engines above to Cuil?

Ok, maybe it’s me, trying with other names I saw that sometimes (I mean, sometimes..) it works better, but it’s still much far from Google and the others.

Do you want a very bad result? Try to search for Tom Keating… You get the football player link to Wikipedia… with the photo of Tom Keating from TMCNet!!!

Please…

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First of all I have to say that never used Microsoft Live Search before. Today I thought of giving it a try. I immediately wrote http://www.livesearch.com on my browser. Then I remembered that the proper site was www.live.com, but I thought without any doubt that Microsoft had bought that domain as well.

That domain is not owned by Microsoft and it provides a search engine powered by Google Search. Cool!

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