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Facebook Has A 20-Person Team Working On Search

Posted on March 31, 2012 by Amit Chowdhry


Facebook has 20 engineers that are being led by former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen to improve the search engine within their site. There is some speculation that Facebook may build a search engine of their own, but I doubt it. They are already dominating at social networking… why shift focus? That’s like Yahoo! launching a Facebook competitor with a News Feed — we know how that would end up.

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Lars Rasmussen Explains Why He Quit Google To Join Facebook

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Amit Chowdhry


Lars Rasmussen, the co-founder of Google Maps spoke publicly about why he decided to quit Google and join Facebook. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a personal pitch about why he wanted Lars to come to his company.
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What Is Google Wave?

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Amit Chowdhry


Earlier this week Google invited 100,000 people including many developers into the testing phase of Google Wave. Anyone that has an invitation to Google Wave can invite 5 people to the service. Google Wave starts with four modules.

The module at the top left is the navigation, the module at the bottom left is the contacts, the module in the middle are archived messages and e-mails, and the module on the right is real-time collaboration like IM, video-conferencing and document-sharing. Some of the extensions already made for Google Wave include Ribbit, Lab Pixies for Sudoku puzzles, Lonely Planet, and AccuWeather. SAP, Salesforce.com, and MediaWikiWave have developed prototypes using Google Wave for their respective software.

Google Wave was developed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen. This is the team behind Google Maps too. A Google spokesperson said that Wave is “how email would look if it was invented today” in an interview. “It would be collaborative and there would be no barriers between live instant messaging, email and documents and so on.”

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