Mar 26, 2011 12:22 GMT  ·  By

Bing continues to demonstrate its commitment to the social networking universe, with the latest move from the software giant designed to enhance the search / decision engine’s News and Entertainment verticals with content from Twitter and Facebook. The goal is to both enable a stream of real-time information to reach users searching the web with Bing, but also to allow customers to tap their friends’ opinions.

US users leveraging Bing News will be able to get real time updates via Twitter in tandem with the traditional search results returned by the decision engine.

“Now alongside the latest headlines on Bing News, you will find a real-time feed with the latest updates from Twitter highlighting hot news topics. Search for a news item and immediately see what people are tweeting on the topic,” revealed Betsy Aoki, Senior Program Manager, Bing.

“Bing news now lets you compare and assess authoritative news analysis alongside real-time citizen journalists so you can decide which content sources you want to use.”

The integration between Facebook and Bing is also deepening. The decision engine already made it possible for users to access their friends’ views on particular search results, and the Redmond company is now taking it one step further.

Bing now enables Facebook users to share insight on select entertainment topics with in the decision engine, more specifically in the Overview tab.

“This week we released a new way to share movies, artists, musicians and television shows directly to your Facebook profile from Bing,” Aoki added.

“Bing entertainment pages now enable you to click on the “overview” tab and post “what’s on your mind.” Whether it’s a movie, a video game or even an artist, now you share your thoughts with just one click.”