Zuckerberg Hints at Facebook Search, Still Sees Mobile Possibilities

By emeadows
September 14, 2012

At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted at a search function for Facebook, leaving attendees with the “impression that Facebook thinks it has a bigger role to play in how we seek out information online,” writes Wired.
Zuckerberg said he believes there’s a significant market out there for people to use Facebook as a search tool.
“Search engines are really evolving toward giving you a set of answers,” he said. “It’s not just like ‘I’ll type in something and show me some relevant stuff.’ It’s, ‘I have a specific question, answer this question for me.’”
“Facebook is pretty uniquely positioned to answer the questions people have: ‘What sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York in the past six months and liked?’ ‘Which of my friends and friends of friends work at this company I’m interested in… so I can talk to them about what it’s like to work there?’” explains Zuckerberg.
“Zuckerberg also made clear he sees another big opportunity in mobile,” reports Wired. “He said Facebook believes it can make more money on mobile than it does on the desktop, and that mobile users are more likely to be active every day than desktop users.”

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