Dive Summary:

• Facebook invited reporters to attend an event Tuesday where the company is expected to make a new product announcement.
• The New York Times reports that analysts see Facebook's future in search as a potentially formidable challenger to Google.
• The company currently has 100 search engineers on staff, as well as former Google engineer Lars Rasmussen, and it has pursued the acquisition of at least one search startup, Ark.

From the article:

SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a year after it announced its bid to go public, Facebook is confronting the ultimate burden of the information age: how to help its users find what they are looking for amid the billions of pictures, “likes” and status updates they post every day. ...