SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s Bing search engine is heading in a new direction as it drills deeper into Facebook’s social network and Twitter’s messaging service to showcase information unlikely to be ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine is increasing its emphasis on the recommendations shared within Facebook’s online social network to give people something they can’t find on Google ...

Microsoft’s search site Bing just got a whole lot more social with the addition of a bunch of new Facebooky features so you can “bring the Friend Effect to search” (Bing’s phrase, not mine). What’s ...

Microsoft has unveiled a deeper conglomerate of Bing and Facebook that harvests the power of the social Web, one year after forming a partnership to take “social search” to the next level. When the ...

Microsoft has incorporated more Facebook data into its Bing search results, increasing the competition around social search with Google, whose level of access to Facebook data is not as deep.

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If you had any doubt that Microsoft will continue to step up efforts to overtake Google in world search domination by building search traffic on Bing-powered sites, consider its latest expanded ...

Qi Lu, Microsoft’s president of online services, spoke recently at the firm’s New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in what industry observer Gregory Huang called “a ...

Microsoft stirs up the browser wars, Google+ gives its app a makeover, and Bing pulls Facebook friends into search results. Bridget Carey is an award-winning reporter who helps you level-up your life ...