Bing Search Blog - Posts tagged with 'Facebook'

Make a Great Impression with Bing Tags

First impressions are important – and in the digital age, putting your best foot forward on the web is just as critical. Last year, we launched Bing Tags* to let you tag yourself or your friends in pages across the web. By connecting with Facebook on Bing, you could also see which pages your Facebook friends have been tagged in. Today, based on your feedback, we’re taking Bing Tags one step further by making your tags visible to a...
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Bing Social Updates Arrive Today: For Every Search, There is Someone Who Can Help

Search is great at retrieving information from across the web to help you find what you’re looking for and get more done. But, more often than not, we look to the people we trust to help us make decisions and get stuff done. At Bing, we believe that for anything you want to get done on Bing, there is at least one person out there who can help. That’s why we introduced a new information architecture with a three column design that...
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Evolving Search on Facebook

Almost two-and-a-half years ago, Bing and Facebook started down a path to make search more social. We both firmly believed that people possess the keys to unlock a world of knowledge previously inaccessible via traditional search. There was increasingly an opportunity to improve discovery on the web by giving people an easy way to use their friends as a “search signal.” Even before we started making search more social with...
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The Bing Social Sidebar Gets a New Look

At Bing, we realize that sometimes the most useful information doesn’t come from ten blue links. By bringing together knowledge from social networks with traditional web results, Bing is the only engine that saves you time allowing you to make decisions with greater confidence based on the input of other people. Today we’re rolling out a new streamlined design for our social sidebar feature making it easier to find people who are...
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Introducing My Bing News on Facebook

Current events are often hot topics among friends.  Whether it’s the latest news about an election, the latest celebrity rumors, or how your favorite player did in last night’s game, we all have interests we follow and share with friends.  Our interests are personal and we all have unique preferences when it comes to news. Today we’re announcing a new experience that makes it easier to follow and share the news that...
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Search and Browse your Facebook Friends' Photos on Bing

Looking for that epic shot from last winter’s ski trip?  Or the I-could-die-laughing photo of your roommate’s cat dancing? With more than 300 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, photo viewing is one of the most popular things people do on Facebook. Bing now lets you quickly find that special photo (out of your friends’ thousands) on Facebook with the new Friends’ Photo feature. Now, with Bing, you can...
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Tag Your Friends When Searching on Bing

Last month, we introduced the new Bing with a social sidebar that lets you ask friends for ideas and recommendations as you search.Now you can involve even more of your Facebook friends by typing their name and tagging them when sharing a search. This allows you to effortlessly tap into the collective wisdom of your social network, and get input from your friends who are in the know. Have a friend who’s a travel guru and can help...
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Facebook Friends, Video and Movies Arrive on Bing for Mobile Browse

  Today we’re taking the wraps off a new set of features that will enhance your Bing for Mobile Browse (m.bing.com) experience. Now you can explore and watch the hottest videos, make faster decisions with the help of your Facebook friends and decide on the right movie for a night out: “Liked Results”: Through our exclusive partnership with Facebook, earlier this year we rolled out “Liked Results” to the web...
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Share the Likes: Celebrate Your Trusted Friends with Bing and Win

When it comes to making decisions, you’ve always trusted your friends to steer you in the right direction. Now we’re making it easy to bring your Facebook friends with you while you’re using Bing. Whether it’s helping you decide where to eat or what not to wear, your trusted friends are always there to help you out.  

Winners Announced: “Friends Don’t Let Friends Decide Alone” Twitter Giveaway

Congratulations to the winners of the “Friends Don’t Let Friends Decide Alone” Twitter Giveaway! On June 1st, we gave $100 towards a night out with friends to 5 lucky @bing followers. All they had to do was tweet a reply to a question asking what decisions they make with their friends. That, along with the inclusion of the #decisions hashtag, put them in the running. The 5 lucky winners were @zcondren, @VectoringMomma...
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