<p><div class="image-container float_right click-to-enlarge" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><a title_source="Owen Thomas, Business Insider" title_caption="Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, Facebook" class="zoomin" href="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/50f5c270ecad04a83e00000a-960/facebook-lars-rasmussen-tom-stocky.jpg"><span class="click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/50f5c270ecad04a83e00000a-900-675/facebook-lars-rasmussen-tom-stocky.jpg?maxX=400&amp;maxY=300" border="0" alt="Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky, Facebook Graph Search" width="400" height="300" /></a></div><p class="source">Owen Thomas, Business Insider</p><p class="caption"><keyword id="1272075" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Lars-Rasmussen">Lars Rasmussen</keyword> and <keyword id="1779452" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Tom-Stocky">Tom Stocky</keyword>, <keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword></p></div>Facebook is not tackling Google head-on with its new <keyword id="1524579" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="graph-search">Graph Search</keyword>, which scours the social network for people, places, photos, and interests shared with friends.</p>
<p>But it is competing very directly for Google for the best engineering talent in Silicon Valley, starting with the two leads of Facebook's Graph <keyword id="47576" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Search">Search</keyword> project, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky.</p>
<p>Rasmussen joined Facebook in late 2010 after his last project at Google, a collaboration tool called Wave, got <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/lars-rasmussen-facebook-graph-search-google-wave-2013-1">killed due to lack of interest</a>. He'd previously overseen a big success, Google Maps, which sprang from a startup he cofounded that Google had acquired in 2004.</p>
<p>When Rasmussen first joined, he <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/biz-tech/why-i-quit-google-to-join-facebook-lars-rasmussen-20101101-1799q.html">said his job description</a> was a vague offer by CEO Mark Zuckerberg to "come hang out for a while." But by the summer of 2012, he was openly talking about his role in <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/search-is-on-for-facebooks-next-big-thing-20120725-22px4.html">improving Facebook search</a>.</p>
<p>His partner on the project, Tom Stocky, joined Facebook in July 2011 directly from Google, where he worked in product management. Hugo Liu, the chief scientist at Hunch, praises his "superb business acumen" <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/tomstocky">on LinkedIn</a>, where six colleagues have endorsed him for the vague yet laudable trait of "awesomeness."</p>
<p>He also worked at MIT's Media Lab, a hotbed of brilliant innovators.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.wired.com/business/2013/01/the-inside-story-of-graph-search-facebooks-weapon-to-challenge-google/all/">Wired's Steven Levy</a>, Stocky and Rasmussen ended up meeting every Friday to update Zuckerberg on the progress of the project, and came to oversee a team of 70.</p>
<p>A LinkedIn search, while not definitive, suggests that a <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?keywords=google+search&amp;company=Facebook&amp;currentCompany=C&amp;searchLocationType=I&amp;countryCode=us&amp;keepFacets=keepFacets&amp;page_num=1&amp;search=&amp;pplSearchOrigin=MDYS&amp;viewCriteria=2&amp;sortCriteria=R&amp;facetsOrder=N%2CI%2CED%2CL%2CFG%2CTE%2CFA%2CSE%2CP%2CCS%2CF%2CDR%2CCC%2CG%2CPC&amp;redir=redir#facets=keywords%3Dgoogle+search%26company%3DFacebook%26currentCompany%3DC%26searchLocationType%3DI%26countryCode%3Dus%26keepFacets%3DkeepFacets%26search%3D%26pplSearchOrigin%3DMDYS%26viewCriteria%3D2%26sortCriteria%3DR%26facetsOrder%3DN%252CI%252CED%252CL%252CFG%252CTE%252CFA%252CSE%252CP%252CCS%252CF%252CDR%252CCC%252CG%252CPC%26page_num%3D2%26openFacets%3DN%252CI%252CED">large number of Googlers who worked on search have ended up at Facebook</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We've heard that Google has a standing policy of <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/google-counteroffer-policy-facebook-twitter-square-2012-8">automatically making counteroffers to any employee recruited by Facebook</a>. It apparently hasn't done enough to slow Facebook's search hiring.</span></p>

There Are A Ton Of Ex-Googlers Working On Facebook Search

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Bentley" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551972d669bedde8718c035f-960/bentley-exp-10-speed-6.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/551972d669bedde8718c035f-1200-924/bentley-exp-10-speed-6.jpg" border="0" alt="Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6" /></a><p class="source"><span>Bentley</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>The Bentley EXP10 Speed 6 is one of most talked-about concept cars of the year. According to the automaker, it will be a focused sports car designed to compete with the Porsche 911s and Jaguar F-Types of the world.</p><p>"It's a muscle-bound tough guy in a Tom Ford suit," Bentley's head of exterior design Sangyup Lee told Business Insider. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"It's the bad-boy Bentley."</span></p><p><span>This all makes perfect sense. The "Speed 6" moniker is perhaps the most sacred in Bentley's century-long history. The original Speed 6s, a series of terrifyingly potent track cars built from 1926-1930, helped put the company on the map by reeling off back-to-back victories at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in 1929 and 1930. </span></p><p><span>As important as the race wins are to Bentley, the men who won those races are of even greater importance. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Known as the "Bentley Boys," they were fierce competitors by day and suave gentlemen by night.</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Bentley" title_caption="The Bentley Boys celebrating a victory in 1927." class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/552690d4eab8ead40ab14d9f-960/bentley-1927-victory-dinner-held-at-the-savoy-five-days-after-the-race.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/552690d4eab8ead40ab14d9f-1200-924/bentley-1927-victory-dinner-held-at-the-savoy-five-days-after-the-race.jpg" border="0" alt="Bentley 1927 victory dinner held at the Savoy five days after the race" style="color: #000000;" /></a><p class="source"><span>Bentley</span></p><p class="caption">The Bentley Boys celebrating a victory in 1927.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>This is<span><span> the legacy that Bentley wants to evoke with the EXP10 Speed 6. </span></span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Bentley's goal is to remind its customers that the brand is more than just a purveyor of luxurious vehicles for pop idols and oil sheiks. It can also build barely civilized cars for exceptionally civilized drivers.</span></p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table click-to-enlarge"><div><div class="image on-image"><a title_source="Bentley" title_caption="" class="zoomin" href="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/552556b3ecad040a3491955f-960/bentley-exp-10-speed-6-2.jpg"><span class="sprites click-to-enlarge-icon" title="Click to enlarge"></span><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/552556b3ecad040a3491955f-1200-924/bentley-exp-10-speed-6-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 (2)" /></a><p class="source"><span>Bentley</span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>That mindset can certainly be found in the proportions of the car. The body has been widened and the wheels pushed to the far edges of each corner. As a result result, the handsome Speed 6 is exhibits the broad shoulders and stocky build of an English bulldog or a prize fighter.</p><p>In many ways, the EXP10 is British interpretation of an American muscle car, Lee said. <span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So when will we be able to buy this car? No one knows for sure yet, but if it does go into production, don't expect to see it in showrooms for at least three more years, <span>Bentley Chairman Wolfgang Durheimer said at the New York Auto Show.</span></span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/fast-and-furious-stars-then-and-now-vin-diesel-paul-walker-2015-4">Here's how the stars of 'Fast &amp; Furious' have changed over the years</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="B0NGlkdDqPQXp-YKz53jwpQ7xZvId2xZ" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'B0NGlkdDqPQXp-YKz53jwpQ7xZvId2xZ',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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