If you search for an event in your area and you have Facebook friends who are talking about attending, you can not only find that out easily with the Social Sidebar, but you can also join in the conversation without ever leaving the search...
Bing and Klout first teamed up in September to bring Klout influencers to Bing's social sidebar. A new question-and-answer feature from social networking site Klout will soon become a more prominent feature in Bing's search results.
After checking in, Facebook might provide a ratings module to you later on (in the right sidebar while you are browsing Facebook). On January 15, 2013, Facebook released Graph Search, which is the social network's first attempt at a serious search...
With all the resources Bing has put into their Social Sidebar, it's interesting to see the campaign continue to be strictly results-based. Based on a comparison of web search results pane only; excludes ads, Bing's Snapshot and Social Search panes...
Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren’t Targeted To Your Queries – TechCrunchThe ads "use standard Facebook targeting and retargeting, look like its sidebar ads, and appear at the bottom of the page — and only if there is more...
Separate from Bing's social sidebar efforts, the folks over at Bing have added a "Pin it" button to the Bing Images search results. The group was tasked with better understanding each of the bloggers' search and social media habits.
This type of content can be pulled into your web pages via a sidebar or somewhere else easily accessible on the page. To take it a step further, you can use rich snippets for products, which gives you an additional opportunity to provide useful...
Steer clear of site-wide links or sidebar links or footer links. A former member of Matt Cutts' search quality team was recently quoted as saying: getting a link from a high PR page used to always be valuable, today it's more the relevance of the...
They introduced the 3-column layout with their social sidebar last year. In another search, different results appear. Rather, they seem to highlight the search term. That image URL is the same image listed in the Bing results page.
In fact, Weitz had this to say about why they separated social results into their Social Sidebar: Within search results, information tied to verified online profiles will be ranked higher than content without such verification, which will result in...
Bing continues to augment Social Sidebar and are now expanding Bing Tags. According to Bing, allowing you to tag friends - or yourself - in search results helped you tap into the resources and "wisdom of your social network" to get you the answers...
In the wake Facebook unveiling Graph Search, Bing is now announcing the addition of more Facebook data into it's social sidebar results. It included content from your friends on Facebook in a sidebar that augmented but didn't get in the way of...
Bing has been getting more social interactions into their social sidebar for the past several years, something expected to continue to grow throughout the foreseeable future. The first column contains results that are displayed quite similar to a...
To eliminate the confusion of how to perform such complicated searches, a set of drop-lists and controls will persistently stay in a sidebar while you're in the search process. Scores of drop-list controls in a sidebar to the right will act as...
Bing has taken a different tack, and social data can cause you to show up in their social sidebar, but doesn’t appear to directly impact the traditional web search results. Links remain the main signal search engines use to determine which of those...
Bing Sidebar The growth of social media fueled projects based on the recognition of the importance signals and search. Starting with Google’s big push on Google + and SPYW the industry began to push for empirical evidence on the relationship...
Bing is looking for and showcasing positive social signals, whether it's the inclusion of a thumbs up next to an organic link on a Bing SERP (indicating one of your Facebook friends has liked a page), your Facebook friends’ Likes in the Bing...
It started early in May when Bing introduced a Social Sidebar, adding Facebook friends to search results without directly interfering with the results. After performing a Bing search, the "People Who Know" section of the Social Sidebar will now...
Twitter doesn’t have sidebar ads, so having search engines crawl and index tweets may draw in users, but doesn’t make them any money. By January, Twitter had come out with guns blazing against Google’s announcement of Search Plus Your World, which...
Initially, friend photos relevant to your search query were shown in the sidebar along side results. This new feature is actually an expansion of the photo features that launched with the social sidebar in May.
