Product design question

How would you improve Facebook’s search monetization?

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What this question tests

Product design for a monetization surface, balancing ad revenue growth against user search experience and trust.

Confirm scope: search ads specifically, distinct from feed or Stories ads.
Identify the tension: more ad inventory in search results risks degrading result relevance and user trust.
Segment intent: users searching for people or content versus users searching for products or businesses.
Prioritize monetizing commercial intent searches, such as product or business queries, where ads are more relevant to the user's goal.
Propose clearly labeled sponsored results shown only for commercial intent queries, not personal searches.
Define success with ad revenue per search alongside a guardrail on search satisfaction and click through on organic results.

Separates commercial intent searches from personal ones, monetizing only where ads add relevant value.
Names a concrete guardrail, organic result click through rate, so monetization is not measured in isolation from user trust.
Proposes a specific mechanism, clearly labeled sponsored results limited to commercial queries, not blanket ad insertion.
Sets a measurable target, ad revenue per search, tied directly to the monetization goal.

Proposes inserting ads into all search results regardless of intent, risking user trust broadly.
Has no guardrail metric to catch a decline in search satisfaction.

How would you detect commercial intent reliably from a search query?
How would you price these ads relative to Meta's existing feed ad inventory?
How would you handle advertiser complaints about low visibility if the ad load stays conservative?