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Friday, May 11, 2012
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[RT TheTonyAwards] And this year, Jan Maxwell is now the 4th performer to be @TheTonyAwards-nom’d in 4 different acting categories. Bravo! @FOLLIESBroadway • • • MAMMA MIA! supermom Monica Kapoor WAMC “The Roundtable” radio feature • • • Tune in to see JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR lyricist Tim Rice on NY-1 “On Stage” this weekend @superstarbway • • •
Bing and Facebook Team Up to Take on Google in Social Search
New Bing Social ‘Sidebar’ Will Pull In Facebook Friend Information
AdAge.com/Digital – by COTTON DELO
In what’s shaping up to be a drawn-out battle to develop a social-search engine that consumers love, Bing has unsheathed a critical weapon: Facebook.
Microsoft’s search engine unveiled today what it’s calling the first major update since Bing launched three years ago. While the update includes tweaks to the search algorithm and the inclusion of “entity” search results — like a photo, map and rate notification in a hotel search — the most noteworthy addition is a social “sidebar” on the right side of the screen that will pull in relevant posts from a user’s Facebook friends to complement a search.
For example, a search for “Seattle restaurants” might pull up Facebook friends who have “liked” dining establishments in the metro area under a header that reads “Friends Who Might Know.” Bing users can also post comments or queries in the sidebar interface that will automatically be published to their Facebook page (provided they’re signed into Facebook) and could hypothetically flag their Seattle-based friends in posts seeking advice on where to go for dinner.
This deep integration with Facebook isn’t the first time the two have collaborated, and Bing has been adding social recommendations powered by Facebook to its search results for the past year. But it’s a sure sign that Microsoft — which bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million in 2007 — will lean on a company it’s heavily invested in to improve on the social-search product Google introduced in January. “Search Plus Your World” pulls up Google+ content deemed relevant to signed-in Google users and has gotten a tepid reception.
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http://adage.com/article/digital/bing-facebook-team-google-social-search/234698/