Bing expands social search features-PCWorld

Microsoft has enhanced search features, Bings social display real-time Twitter messages on Bings the news section and the simplification of Sharing of Bing entertainment on Facebook.

The new capabilities build on existing links Bing has both Twitter and Facebook, highlighting the increased importance of supplementary opinion search engines with social network sites. Some queries are input from the people's social circle very valuable and relevant.

Bing social had already a section for people interested in search only through public posts and status updates from Twitter and Facebook. Now, Twitter content is displayed in the Bing news search results.

"Search for a news item and immediately see what people are tweeting on the topic," wrote Betsy Aoki, Bing Senior program manager, in a blog post.

In the meantime, Bing now displays a Facebook box where logged users can type in a status update and post it to their Facebook profile without leaving the interface Bing.

The feature is now specifically available for "Overview" pages in Bing entertainment, a part of the Web site that offers information digests on movies, actors, singers and other categories, entertainment.

' Whether it is a movie, a video game, or even an artist, now you can share your thoughts with just a single click, ' wrote Aoki.

Google are also working hard to factor in social signals in some of his queries and recently gave its social search service is a paraphrase, promoting its results from a special section at the bottom of the page to the list on the main findings based on their query by relevance and sharpness other features.

While access to Twitter content and feeds seems consistent among search engines, Bing enjoy preferred status with Facebook, thanks to a partnership between the two companies. Which has resulted in Google lacks access to essential Facebook features, Bing has, like the ability to include links to Web sites in the results to a Facebook friends "preferred."

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