Microsoft’s So.cl (pronounced “social”) is a research project that became public back in December last year as a new means for students to connect to one another and collaborate on learning. Coming from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, the project materialized in the launch of a website that provided ... |
21 May 2012
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Bing is becoming more social than before, while also increasing users’ control over how they show in searches. The latest change in this area is the addition of Linked Pages to search results. Whether it comes to friends, acquaintances or themselves, users are increasingly searching for other people on Bing.... |
23 February 2012
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Google is pushing its Google Plus social networking site hard. In fact, it is pushing it so hard that users will have it linked to all of their search results.
Just head over to google.com and perform a search. This has been around for some time now, and those who have a Google+ account and use the search engine ev... |
6 February 2012
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The evolution of Bing has taken Microsoft’s decision engine beyond search, making it capable of connecting people, not just returning results to user queries.
At least this is what Sean Suchter believes. Suchter, who heads up Bing’s social search team on Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus, is chara... |
2 November 2011
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Microsoft and Facebook announced a deep partnership that would bring Facebook data to the Bing search results. A couple of new features have been announced, the possibility to see what your friends have 'liked,' if it's relevant to the query, and a people search feature based on Facebook. "Today, we�... |
14 October 2010
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The Bing and Twitter symbiosis introduced in 2009 is on the verge of its next evolutionary step, designed to make real-time content an integral part of the searching experiences of the Microsoft decision engine. Lawrence Kim, from the Bing Social Search team, notes that new features are currently being test-driven by... |
14 April 2010
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Google's social web prowess seems to be growing these days. After just launching its new social network/aggregator, Friendfeed-inspired Google Buzz, the company has confirmed it acquired social search and Q&A service Aardvark for a rumored but unconfirmed $50 million. As a side note, have you noticed how web se... |
12 February 2010
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The search landscape is getting a lot more complicated lately and all the major players are moving beyond just the traditional search, adding new elements like real time and social search. Google and Microsoft both announced a deal with Twitter to integrate content from the microblogging service into their search res... |
27 October 2009
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The search world is changing and it's becoming more complex and more spread out. The big search engines are doing a great job at recovering the static information available on the World Wide Web but a much poorer one with real-time information or with social search. But that is changing with both Bing and Google... |
22 October 2009
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Aardvark, the social search service, has just been made available to the public after several months in private beta. The service was open to new users since then but it was invitation only meaning that you had to know someone who was already using it to get in. The limitation is no more and now anyone with a Faceboo... |
29 June 2009
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Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo!'s Vice President of social search, has left the building on Friday, but his vacation will have been short-lived. Today, he is set to accept the job of CEO at Xobni, a startup with an aim to make Outlook e-mail smarter, as Erick Schonfeld of Tech Crunch reports.Jeff's time with the Sunn... |
18 February 2008
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