If you do a search on Facebook, you will now also find links to Wikipedia

The social network increases the sources for research on films, actors, sports, music and current affairs. Emulates the Google information panel, highlighting the most famous encyclopedia on the web Facebook (image: Gabriele Porro) The goal is always the same: to keep Facebook users as much as possible inside the platform. So the social network is studying a new system to replace the searches that a user would do on Google or Wikipedia with an internal navigation on his platform. And to do so, it is testing a side panel to the search results that emulates, in all respects, that of Google in which the information of the most authoritative funds appears. Wikipedia in the first place.

The idea is that when a user wants to know more about a film, a famous singer or an athlete, he does not leave the social network to query a search engine, but he turns to Facebook Search. The Menlo Park algorithm will then provide the results, in addition to links to personal pages, fan clubs and posts on the social network, a reference to authoritative external sources, including the most important encyclopedia on the web.

The function is already being tested for iOS users, desktop or mobile web, for some research related to films, singers, actors, athletes and people of public interest. Facebook has confirmed to TechCrunch that the functionality has been activated as a test for English-speaking users and Wired, browsing the social network, has found that the information panel of Wikipedia also appears in Italy, with a reference to the English-language version.

the Results of research on Facebook to comparison. The Joker shows the information from Wikipedia, Then no (source: Screenshot from Facebook) At the moment the feature does not work on all ricerch and. For example, by typing Joker in the search bar of Facebook, the social network shows the information panel on the dedicated to the film starring Joaquin Phoenix . While with the Parasite do not activate the new service. The same happens in the field of politics: that is for the president of the United States, Donald Trump, but not for other politicians. You will have to wait to know the results of the testing phase and the implementation of this function in other languages.