Bing, on February 22nd, announced a new feature “Linked Pages”. This customizes your search results to integrate / highlight social (Facebook) connections and enhances “People Search”.
Some Key Intakes about this feature:
A) When you perform a search in Bing, pages which have been linked to your Facebook friends will be displayed.
B) It allows you to Link search results to your Bing Profile. Bing Profile includes your Blog, Articles, Company Website, Videos, etc. This is quite similar to Google +1.
C) You can link your Friends Profile to a particular search result. If you don’t consider these links to be correct, you can always unlink these pages.
D) If you build on it positively, it can turn out to be a good choice for your reputation management.
As per our research, this update seems to be entirely about personal profiles (people), not businesses. Nevertheless, we are quite hopeful that it will soon open business pages, as well.
Here’s a video link from Bing, on the new feature for further review.
So what do you think about the inclusion of enhanced social connections to Bing search results? Is this the answer for Google’s “Search Plus your World”. Let us know what you think by commenting below.
