Mar 12, 2013 at 1:20pm ET by Barry Schwartz

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At this morning’s SMX West Keynote with Grady Burnett, Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions for Facebook, Grady said Facebook has no plans or intentions on launching an external search engine to compete with Google or Microsoft Bing.

Grady Burnett explained that Facebook is focused on improving search from within Facebook through Graph Search. Facebook will not be launching a dedicated search engine outside of the Facebook environment.

Here is the question and answer from our live blog coverage on Marketing Land:

DS: Do you ever see Facebook wanting a dedicated search product outside of Facebook? Mentions the past rumors that Facebook might buy Bing from MSFT.

GB: I don’t see that happening. We called it “Graph Search” because we’re focused on letting people search the Facebook graph. So my answer would be no.

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http://twitter.com/DanCarlyon Daniel Carlyon

Give it time, i’m sure they will look into it eventually.
http://www.facebook.com/davidhillier314159 David Hillier

Search doesn’t have to be a “dedicated product” or “outside of Facebook” to be hugely disruptive. They just don’t want/need to buy Bing.
http://twitter.com/LRTGraphics LRT Graphics

Facebook also used to say they would only allow college students to join their networking group, that exclusivity makes it unique and that ad’s will never happen. Everything changes – that is the nature of the beast in business and with startups.

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