Facebook And Google Tussled Over Search Results

Posted by David Cohen on January 13th, 2012 12:11 PM

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Amid all of the speculation on the effects of adding content from Google Plus and Picasa to Google’s search results, another back story is beginning to emerge: Why have Google and Facebook never reached a search agreement?

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Facebook Pushing Bing Translation Tool

Posted by David Cohen on November 9th, 2011 11:47 AM

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It appears that Facebook is already taking steps to tweak its faulty Bing translation tool, as Facebook users are being given the option of right-clicking on translations to access the tool.

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Lost In Translation: Facebook’s Bing Tool Is Faulty

Posted by David Cohen on November 8th, 2011 12:48 PM

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The Bing translation tool introduced by Facebook last month gets less than half of the translations correct.

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Use Bing Rewards To Pay For Facebook Credits

Posted by Jackie Cohen on June 20th, 2011 3:06 PM

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You can now score Facebook Credits by racking up reward points from Bing.
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How To Boost Visibility On Bing Via Facebook

Posted by Guest Writer on June 13th, 2011 11:40 AM

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We sought to improve our search engine optimization for the incorporation of Facebook data into Bing and generated better results than we ever anticipated.
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Bing One Ups Google With Deeper Facebook Integration

Posted by Nick O'Neill on May 16th, 2011 5:54 PM

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While Google +1 has yet to gain significant traction, Bing and Facebook are hoping that the new personalized search results can help create a more robust social search experience.
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Facebook Not Testing Web Search Box At Top Of Site (Updated)

Posted by Nick O'Neill on March 24th, 2011 3:20 PM

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Facebook has told SearchEngineLand that the appearance of a second search engine box on some users’ screens may have been the work of malware.
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Bing Expands Facebook Integration With Search

Posted by Nick O'Neill on February 24th, 2011 5:53 PM

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This morning Microsoft announced an expanded implementation of Facebook plugins within Bing’s search results, which now display data on “likes,” further emphasizing the ongoing battle with Google over the future of social search.
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Facebook Improves Search Results On Site

Posted by Jackie Cohen on February 21st, 2011 10:01 AM

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While Microsoft’s Bing and Google have just added social media to their search engines, Facebook appears to have upgraded its own search: the site now groups query results under category headings.
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Google’s Social Search Announcement Omits Facebook

Posted by Jackie Cohen on February 17th, 2011 5:28 PM

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Google announced that its latest search engine would have more integration with social media, and managed to do so without mentioning Facebook even a single time in an entire blog post – markedly contrasting Microsoft’s announcement of the new Bing browser.
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