Bing continues to expand its Social Sidebar features,
today announcing that you’re now able to “Like” a friend’s comment or post that appears in a Bing search result, and comment directly to their Facebook post without leaving Bing:
Bing announced its Social Sidebar program in May of 2012, and has made steady progress in upgrading it since then, adding
FourSquare,
Quora,
Klout (along with a Microsoft investment in the company,
news authors,
a new lighter look, and a previous iteration of updates to
Facebook integration. We’re not sure how much these investments are adding to Bing’s search market share, but it certainly is helping to differentiate the search engine from its competitors.
This comes just two days after
Klout announced its new “Klout Experts” program, which will allow Klout users to offer themselves up to answer questions and have them surfaced on Bing:
