brotherhood_of_LAN - 1:44 am on Sep 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

>they need to get the Bing team to knock this out and just embrace Bing as their search engine so they can focus on Facebook itself.

Agreed. It's going to take a bunch of people and a long, long time to build anything comparable. Purely guessing, 18-24 months doesn't sound long enough at all... so it'd be a while away.

Putting a web search box somewhere prominent with an arrow pointing at it would take considerably less time, Yahoo's SE tie ups always made them good money.