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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 2012

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Linked Pages: Better People Search Results Microsoft Bing announced a new feature named Linked Pages. The purpose is to make the search results for you and your friends more personalized […]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Bing Linked Pages: Better People Search Results
Microsoft Bing announced a new feature named Linked Pages. The purpose is to make the search results for you and your friends more personalized as well as richer. If I am friends with you and you do a search in Bing for [barry schwartz] you will see the following search result at the top: Linked […]
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