Bing has gone to great lengths to incorporate social signals into its search results via the Bing social sidebar, recently adding five times more Facebook content. Social media’s influence on search results continues to grow.
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...
Be sure to link all your blog posts in the series to each other and promote it as a content resource on your blog by placing it either under Resources on your blog’s header or in a widget on your sidebar’s navigation.
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. It could be anything from comparison tools, to buying guides to social icons, to videos or photos of the product, and more.
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. Rather, they seem to highlight the search term. In another search, different results appear. We’re constantly updating and refining the Bing search experience," a Microsoft...
In fact, Weitz had this to say about why they separated social results into their Social Sidebar: Average Article Velocity: The concept of velocity relates to the tweets, +1s, shares, Likes ("social events") per day, per hour, or even per minute.
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. Last year, Bing introduced its social sidebar. It included content from your friends on Facebook in a sidebar...
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. If this is one of your products, at a minimum, you need a page dedicated to...
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...
After performing a Bing search, the "People Who Know" section of the Social Sidebar will now include people Klout believes to be influential about the topic you searched. Influences who appear more often in the Social Sidebar as a result of Search...
