Facebook took a major step away from Microsoft on Tuesday by confirming it had built a search product for its network without any involvement from its Redmondian biz partner, which has a $240m stake in Mark Zuckerberg's ad empire.
While it remains the case that Microsoft's Bing continues to power web search on Facebook, the company has completely revamped how its users can mine for data within the site.
But instead of enlisting Microsoft's expertise to help build that function, Facebook took the entire operation in-house with a 100-strong web-developer team led by Lars Rasmussen - the man who co-created Google Maps and, er, Wave.
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