Facebook May Challenge Google+ with Enhancements to Search

Competition between Facebook and Google+ is heating up. According to Bloomberg Businessweek’s sources, Facebook has hired a former Google engineer named Lars Rasmussen to lead a team of two dozen engineers in an effort to improve Facebook’s search functionality.

The company is not allowed to discuss the details during the quiet period leading up to its IPO, but people close to the project said that the enhancements will make it easier for users to find photos, videos, status updates, and other content available on friends’ profiles and brand pages they have “liked.”

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