Microsoft and Facebook have collaborate since 2006 , but today they ’re step up their hunt partnership . The visual modality for Bing : a search experience where your Facebook connection helps inform your every enquiry .
So far it all seems very broad and conceptual : you ’ll be able to carry out name search of non - famous people more expeditiously , and product searches will be direct in part by what your friend like . How does that play ?
Or if you ’re searching for a steakhouse , if your friend have reviewed or liked a particular eating house it ’ll be give way priority in your results even when it would n’t otherwise have had a down in the mouth ranking .
In terms of People search , or else of just serving up the most far-famed hoi polloi with a particular name ( in my case , I ’m widely trumped by a New Zealand Cricketeer and an erstwhile singer / songwriter ) result integrate friends and friend - of - friends for stalking within your social circle .
As with any newsocial searchproduct , privateness concerns are ineluctable . You ’ll receive a notification the next five times you confab Bing that it ’s integrated with Facebook , and offering you a chance to decline . After that , you ’re still free to choose out by going into place setting . Bing will only be able-bodied to access your public information , and your Bing search story wo n’t be reflect on your Facebook report .
When will this all find ? Some elements will be rolled out today , with full integration come in the next several month .
There ’s no more powerful better half in societal search than Facebook and its 500 million user , and no question that for specific types of searches this gives Bing a firm upper helping hand . But is it enough to make you abandon Google ’s warm embrace ? Depends on how active your friends are — and how much you trust their opinions .
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