Bing has officially announced they have redesigned the search results screen and social sidebar to help improve usability of the page.

The changes include:

• The social results on the right are now clearly labelled as “Social Results”
• The search results on the left are now left-justified
• Addition of a + more link to expand the results to see more.

We saw this was coming in tests that were leaked a few weeks ago. In that story, Danny Sullivan digs deeper into the main changes.

Here are screen shots of before and after:

Before:

After:

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Related Topics: Channel: Social | Microsoft: Bing | Microsoft: Bing Social Search | Microsoft: Bing User Interface

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