Make better decisions with Facebook friend's opinion
Tech Tracker Bing, search engine from Microsoft is making additional efforts to enhance it's search results by using your friend's opinion from Facebook. According to the blog posting 90% of people seek advice from friends and family to help them make decisions.
1 Using Facebook Like data
2 Enhanced profile search
3 Location search
4 Flight deals
To check out latest Bing social features, go to Bing (United States), Sign in with your Facebook account and you can start experiencing personalized social search.
Tech Tracker Bing, search engine from Microsoft is making additional efforts to enhance it's search results by using your friend's opinion from Facebook. According to the blog posting 90% of people seek advice from friends and family to help them make decisions.
So, How can you take better decisions with integration of traditional search and social view ?
1 Using Facebook Like data
This is probably one of the most used features of Facebook.
Suppose you search for YouTube on Bing (change to Bing United States first), you will see link to videos which have been Liked by your friend's.
This feature also helps bring out popular pages of any website. If you search for BlackBerry , along with normal results it will include links to some pages from within the site which have been well-liked by people.
2 Enhanced profile search
You can search for your Facebook friend's , right within Bing with profile details like location, education, employment etc. It will help in quickly identifying the person you are looking for.
3 Location search
Suppose you search for a specific city where you are planning to head to, results will include your friends living there . So you know which friends can give you more information about that place.
You can also create and share your travel wishlist's with your friends with Bing travel wish list application for Facebook.
4 Flight deals
This one would be useful for people who fly frequently. If you Like a ciy in Bing Travel, you can get great deals for that city directly in your Facebook feed
Search engines nowadays are increasingly including results from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. Google offers Realtime search which includes latest Tweets for the
searched keywords
To check out latest Bing social features, go to Bing (United States), Sign in with your Facebook account and you can start experiencing personalized social search.
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