Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Bing Tweaks Social Features

Online search engine Bing, which is run by Microsoft, announced today that it has tweaked its deployment of new social search features. According to Bing, it has modified the new social features which it announced in October in a partnership with Facebook, and is now allow more people to show up in profile searches in Bing, based on their Facebook settings. In addition, Bing said it will now show results from friends who are under 18 to show up in results, a change from the firm's original plan to limit profile searches to people 18 and older. Both changes came as a result of feedback from the search engine's users. Originally, Bing has stricter limits on available of search data from social connections than Facebook; both of these changes make more search data available to users, if they are connected to their Facebook friends in the search engine, while still limiting public disclosure of that data in general searches.