Bangalore: Facebook could be building a search engine to change the scenario in social search, according to Mashable, since social networks lack the ability to let users receive relevant results (say, for example, returning a particular restaurant when you searched for it-- instead of showing people who worked at the restaurant, different types of food and everything other than that one query).

According to the report, the search engine in question would be fuelled by your friends’ likes, your location and the like. Basically, the engine would be powered by the concept of the social search—a concept so powerful it could challenge even Google at its own game.

What makes this move even more compelling is the fact that Facebook has (according to Bloomberg’s Businessweek) deployed a dozen search engineers along with Lars Ramussen, a former Google engineer to improve the search experience on the social network.

Where is Facebook in the search engine scenario?