Microsoft unveiled an update to Bing on Thursday that strongly leverages social networks, including a redesigned interface to provide a three-column look. Responses to queries keyed into Bing will list experts and the user’s friends, who can comment on the topic in the right panel. A new feature called “Snapshot” will display useful information about a specific place or topic in the middle column. The updated version of Bing will roll out over the next few weeks and will be broadly available in the United States in early June. It will run on desktops and smartphones.
Do I really need to be connected to Facebook to search. Do I need my Facebook friends to know what I am searching for? What this is looking like is another connection with Facebook to share ad revenue. Do I want Facebook to be the center of my Web experience. Heck NO.
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Bing Makes Triple-Column Play With New Interface Design
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 11, 2012 11:37 AMMicrosoft unveiled an update to Bing on Thursday that strongly leverages social networks, including a redesigned interface to provide a three-column look. Responses to queries keyed into Bing will list experts and the user’s friends, who can comment on the topic in the right panel. A new feature called “Snapshot” will display useful information about a specific place or topic in the middle column. The updated version of Bing will roll out over the next few weeks and will be broadly available in the United States in early June. It will run on desktops and smartphones.