Bing adds Facebook updates and Links to search results
Later today search engine Bing (Microsoft) launches a new search feature called bing.com/social that includes user-generated links and content from Facebook.
In addition to Facebook, Twitter content will as well be a part of the search result. Up dates from Facebook pages and the most popular shared links will compose the top search result.
Bing promise that the links in top of the search will be based in updates that are ”shared with everyone”. The company also announces that users name and picture will not appear in the search result.
In a blog entry, Bing explains:
“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.”
For the time being, bing.com/social is only available in the U.S. and we will have to wait until it will be launched in Sweden. The new feature makes Facebook even more important when it comes to search and Bing takes a step closer to Google as a try to level of its enormous advantage.