Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
I’ve been complaining that nearly no search engines surface real time data (for now, that’s Twitter, but Facebook is coming soon enough, and there will be tons more). In fact, I complained to Microsoft about this well before the launch of Bing, and then complained some more when Twitter results were not surfaced in initial beta versions of the service. Man, I’m grumpy lately, eh? Well, that’s changing. Sort of. From a Bing blog post today: There has been much discussion...
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Google Adds Facebook Friends to Results
I’m not sure how new this is, but when a Facebook user’s profile is returned in Google’s search results, you can now see the user’s location (or network) and a random selection of their friends, as shown on their public profile. I’m not seeing any special markup in the Facebook profile page, but could this be Google’s “Rich Snippets” feature in action, as announced at this year’s Searchology conference? [Thanks Luke!] [By Tony Ruscoe | Origin: Google Adds Facebook Friends to...
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