Facebook Drops Bing From Facebook Search Results ![rw-book-cover](https://searchengineland.com/wp-content/seloads/2014/08/facebook-search-fade-ss-1920.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Martin Beck]] - Full Title: Facebook Drops Bing From Facebook Search Results - Category: #articles - Summary: Some opinions expressed in this article may be those of a guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed here. - URL: http://searchengineland.com/fa-210851 Facebook has broken up with Bing, quietly dropping results from the Microsoft search engine as part of this week’s Facebook search update. The change, reported [late today by Reuters](https://recode.net/2014/12/12/facebook-dumps-microsoft-search-results/), was confirmed by a Facebook spokesperson in an email to Search Engine Land. “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,” the spokesperson wrote. “We continue to have a great partnership with Microsoft in lots of different areas.” Facebook search has long been geared toward helping users find other people or information within the social network. But since 2008, Facebook has also served search results from the wider web, first in 2008 with [Microsoft’s Live Search](https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-live-search-coming-to-facebook-14442), then in [2010 with Bing](https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/bringing-your-friends-to-bing-search-now-more-social/437112312130). Now Facebook is shifting gears. On Monday [it announced an update](https://searchengineland.com/facebook-search-finally-lets-search-posts-210308) — for U.S. English language users — that restored the ability for people to search within posts. That, Facebook said, was the No. 1 search-related request from users. *Opinions expressed in this article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Staff authors are listed [here](https://searchengineland.com/staff).* Some content could not be imported from the original document. [View content ↗](https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1392079123.html#_=1392650032615&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=martinbeck&show_count=true&show_screen_name=true&size=m), Facebook Drops Bing From Facebook Search Results, Martin Beck, 01gnmczrtgcx87pvqy64e3e9k0.