Bing adds Twitter and Facebook to its Search Results

Posted on 14 June, 2010 under Search Engines with Post a Comment

Google recently upgraded its search engine to which now allows real-time search results for Twitter posts, Bing has also announced that they will be adding Twitter and Facebook to its search results as well. Bing’s Social Search can be found at Bing.com/social as it went live on June 9th.

Whenever a search is conducted on Bing’s Social Search, Search results returned to a user will not only include tweets on a particular search term, but will also include Facebook page updates and popular links shared by users on Facebook as seen above. Bing has also stated that the search results will only consist of Facebook updates that was shared with everyone and only the content of the shared link will be displayed, not the Facebook user information (names, photos, ect…) of those that shared the link.

They also recently made a post on their blog which states that the search engine will do this as follows, “Searching for ‘World Cup’ will show what links Facebook users are sharing on the topic – with a caption that is extracted from the original article shown below the link.”

Source: Examiner

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