Real Time Search Engine For Government Information

The US federal government now has a real time, Twitter-style search engine that allows people to find the most current government information. People can search for specific subjects, like “energy tax credit” or browse general topics like “agriculture” to find relevant government documents and blog postings from 144 federal departments. Just like on Twitter search, […]

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Bing Search Results Recommend People On Twitter

Last week the Bing search engine strengthened their commitment to social search by adding recommendations of people to follow on Twitter in their search results. When users search for a topic on Bing social, they now get a list of recommended Twitter users to follow for that topic. The Twitter user results appear on the […]

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Bing May Use Facebook Data For Social Search Results

According to AllThingsDigital.com, Microsoft is in negotiations with Facebook to use social recommendations from users in Bing web search results. If a search agreement is reached between Microsoft and Facebook, Bing would mine anonymous user data from Facebook ‘Likes’ to return search results that are based on popularity within the Facebook social network. Microsoft sees […]

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