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Search Engines Goes Social: Bing Social Search

Written on:May 12, 2012
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Microsoft’s Bing Goes Social Search 

Microsoft is adding a new Social Sidebar to Bing search that shows your contacts and activity on all your social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, and even Google+.

The Whole New Bing: Relevant, Comprehensive and Trustworthy

According to Bing’s announcement, “The new Bing introduces a brand new information architecture with a three column design that focuses on bringing you information from the web to help you take action and interact with friends and experts without compromising the core search experience”.

The separation of the state and the search doesn’t apply to search engines and social networks now as Google integrated social activities to search results and it’s not surprising that Bing is following suit.

Will this integration make you enjoy the use of Bing or will it freak you out that all your social activities could now to tracked real-time on the social search?

9 comments
Argee Abadines
Argee Abadines

Interesting. I'm not familiar with Bing. The user interface looks a bit cluttered. Will have a look at it :) 

Daryll Dial-Boyd
Daryll Dial-Boyd

the integration is just proper or else they'll be left on the scene, though am not a bing user... :)

Maricel
Maricel

Seems like everything's going social now. Kinda like, if you can't beat them, join them?

Lizzie
Lizzie

That's a pretty good feature and will result to more interaction and reliable search results.

Mawe Barrios
Mawe Barrios

This sounds great! I like it! I actually don't understand why people are so concerned about privacy of their personal information. So what if Google or Bing knows what I searched for or what I like about books, movies, and music? At the very least, they can give me ads that are related to my interests, so it's a win-win.

Jonha Revesencio
Jonha Revesencio

True that! Why be on social networks in the first place if you're too worried of your privacy :) I really like how you put it. 

Iam Herbert
Iam Herbert

Smart move for MS but I dont think that Bing's algo is as tough as of Google :D

Jonha Revesencio
Jonha Revesencio

Bing's algo is actually pretty neat, but that doesn't mean I like it.