Facebook gets rid of Bing Search results

Facebook and Microsoft have had a pretty amicable relationship for a while already. But that doesn’t mean Facebook plans to use all its services. The social network has quietly gotten rid of Bing Search results on its site. A spokesperson from Facebook told Reuters, "We're not currently showing web search results in Facebook Search because we're focused on helping people find what's been shared with them on Facebook."

Yes, the social network is working on showing you specific posts when you search within Facebook. Letting go of Bing Search doesn’t mean the end of their relationship though. They are said to be working together in other areas as well.

Source: Reuters | Via: Gizmodo

Yahoo! purchases SkyPhrase for natural language recognition capabilities

Yahoo! has bought startup SkyPhrase, a natural language processing company that was working on methods to handle inquiries similar to Siri and Wolfram Alpha’s capabilities. It looks like the tech company wants to improve its web search capabilities and help personalize search results a bit more.