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The More Social Search

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khoward
– April 23, 2012Posted in: Apps, Bing, Facebook, Google, Internet Trends, News, Tech

Since Google’s “Search Plus Your World” left something to be desired at its launch earlier this year (namely social results that weren’t from Google+), other groups have tried to fill in the social search pieces.  One such startup, Wajam, is working hard at this new kind of search with a redesign and new service integrations.

The service features social status updates and links from Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, which, with the update, appear next to regular Google search results.  Support for Bing and Yahoo with this new Wajam format is expected later this week, while users should expect integration of LinkedIn results before the end of the year.

Along with social search results that can now be filtered by network or category, Wajam now features further integration with sites like Amazon and Wikipedia.  If Google’s attempt at social search didn’t entirely turn you away – and you prefer your search to be more social, Wajam may just be the search tool for you.

(Image and Story via TechCrunch)

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Bing, Yahoo Tied for Second Place Search Engine

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khoward
– December 16, 2011Posted in: Bing, Internet Trends, Microsoft, News

According to comScore statistics, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing now each have 15% of the search engine market.  Considering Bing has been offering its unique search services for under three years, coming this close to overtaking Yahoo is quite an accomplishment – although the fact that Bing powers Yahoo makes the rivalry an interesting one.  Of course, neither are anywhere close to search champion Google, who has a 65.4% market share according to the same study.

Other studies have slightly different figures, but all place Google in strong lead, with Yahoo and Bing relatively far behind at second.  But Microsoft doesn’t intend to stop there.  In the future, the company hopes to integrate Bing into more products and forge more partnerships to take an increasing share of the search engine market.

How much success Microsoft will have in that tactic remains to be seen.  Still, it’s hard to imagine ‘Bing’ replacing ‘Google’ as a generic term for an Internet search.

(Via Mashable, Image via SEO.com)

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Bing Gets Social with Facebook Integrations

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acoleman
– October 14, 2010Posted in: Bing, Facebook, Internet Trends

Social integrations within search engines are nothing new, in fact, Bing and Google both started doing that way back in 2009 with Twitter and Facebook integrations. Bing, however, plans to bump up their social features by expanding their Facebook integration and services.

There will be two key features that will be coming with the new Facebook integrations for Bing; one will be liked results for queries, and the other will be Facebook profile search. With liked results, whenever you search for a specific thing you can see which of your Facebook friends have liked the item and shared links pertaining to it right within your results.

The key feature of the new Facebook integrations is profile search, which will allow users to search for a specific Facebook user within Bing.  The profile search feature will allow you to not only search for a Facebook user, but friend them as well within your search results.

One of the major concerns that comes with any indexing of personal information is of course privacy. Microsoft addressed these concerns by covering a few key points they would like Facebook users to be aware of.  First of all, you will have the option to not use Facebook integrations within Bing at all, as it will come with a disable function. Secondly, you’re like results will only be visible to your Facebook friends.  Lastly, no individual who is under the age of 18 with a Facebook account will be indexed within Bing.

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