Facebook, Microsoft Add Social Features to Searches
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Facebook Inc. expanded its partnership with Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, letting people automatically see what their Facebook friends think about the topics they’re seeking information on.
Bing’s new search screen also will let users become a person’s friend on Facebook or send a message to the social-networking service, Microsoft and Facebook said today at a media event in Mountain View, California. Searches for restaurants or movies will spotlight the ones that a user’s friends like. Terms of the partnership weren’t disclosed.