The end has come to what was to a long relationship with Microsoft search. A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed this to be accurate following the report by Reuters.

Facebook is now concentrating on it own content so when you search within Facebook you will be searching actual Facebook content only.

Facebook’s Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg flagged search as one of the company’s key growth initiatives. It was suggested that in the month of August there were more than 1 billion search queries occurring on Facebook every day.