I almost hate to say it, but Live search would be a huge improvement for Facebook

The New York times has a piece today talking about Microsoft’s new(er) partnership with Facebook to expand the use of their Live search:

To Microsoft, Facebook is a quick way to expand the audience for its search engine. More than 29 million people actively use Facebook in the United States. They will soon see prominent displays of Microsoft’s Live Search box on their friends’ and their own Facebook pages.

Everyone’s been griping for ages about how horrible the search functions are within Facebook. We did a few successful posts that essentially made it easier to find groups or pages on Facebook.

Why did they get traffic? People would rather search Google for the link to the page than try to navigate through Facebook’s own search UI.

I’ll be excited if, in addition to just letting me search the internet at large, Microsoft actually indexes Facebook (remember - Google for the most part is not allowed to do this) and we can finally do away with Facebook’s own, abysmal, internal search.

So all in all, I think this could be a good move.

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