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WSJ Report: Apple Buys Topsy, A Leading Twitter Search & Analytics Company
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has purchased Topsy, one of the leading Twitter search and analytics companies, for more than...
Bing, Twitter Renew Deal To Include Tweets In Search Results
Bing has announced a renewal of its long-standing deal with Twitter to include tweets in Bing’s search results. The Bing-Twitter...
Bing Experiments With Social Search By Adding New Bing Boards To Search Results
Bing announced today that they are adding a new social element to their search results with the introduction of Bing Boards. Currently being...
Communicators, Take Note: The Deplorable State Of Social Search Is Changing
The rate at which people share information (profound and profane alike) on sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is staggering. 137 million...
Want To Comment On Facebook? Now You Can, From Bing
A new Facebook/Bing integration today will further entrench Facebook data into Bing results. Users are now able to interact with Facebook...
Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing’s Search Results
From Yahoo! to Facebook to Quora, social sites have long been struggling to leverage the Q&A format successfully. Today Klout officially...
Microsoft’s ViralSearch: Search Engine For Measuring Tweets & Viral Content
VentureBeat reports Microsoft announced a new research project named ViralSearch. ViralSearch lets you search and navigate cascades of people...
Bing Tags Expands, Makes Pages Linked To Your Profile Public
Search engines continue to go old school, encouraging people to “tag” content in a way that makes it feel like it’s 1999 all...
Bing Adds 5X More Facebook Content To Social Sidebar
The big news in search this week was the announcement of Facebook’s Graph Search. But today, Microsoft is making enhancements to its own...
Bing’s Social Sidebar Lands On The iPad
Bing has announced that searchers on the iPad will start seeing its “social sidebar” over the next few days. That includes the iPad...
Official: Bing Updates Social Sidebar Design
Bing has officially announced they have redesigned the search results screen and social sidebar to help improve usability of the page. The...
Bing Testing Social Sidebar With New Look, More Answers
It’s been about six months since Bing unveiled its Social Sidebar, and the search engine is now testing a new format that drops the gray...
Bing Launched Elections Portal: Filter News By Party, Social Integration, Maps & More
Bing announced on their search blog a new portal for tracking the US Presidential Elections at bing.com/elections. The portal has some nice...
Bing Now Handpicks News Writers For Its Social Sidebar
Bing is dipping its toes into a form of what Google calls “authorship” with today’s announcement that news writers are now...
Bing’s Social Sidebar Gains Klout Scores & People Recommendations
Klout has become the latest social service to be integrated into the new Bing Social Sidebar that was launched earlier this year. Bing says that...
Zuckerberg On Search: “At Some Point, We’ll Do It” & Be “Uniquely Positioned”
Waiting for a Facebook search engine? Eventually, it’ll arrive, says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But it might not be what you expect....
How To Search Facebook Friends’ Photos On Bing
Microsoft announced on the Bing Search blog that you can now search Bing to discover your friends’ photos within Facebook. If you...
Bing Brings Quora Content Into Its Social Sidebar
Bing continues to expand the content that may show up in its social sidebar, with news today that its Quora integration is complete. The...
Bing Adds Friend-Tagging To Social Sidebar
Bing has just announced a small tweak to how its Social Sidebar functions — but it’s one that overcomes one of the Sidebar’s...
Foursquare Tips Now Integrated Into Bing’s Social Sidebar
In May Bing rolled out its new social sidebar that tied together social data from both Facebook and Twitter. Today another source has been added...
