How Bing and Facebook Actually Make "Social Search" A Reality
Facebook search, as it is now, is a pretty messy ordeal. If I search for White Stripes, I’m presented with a few pages that are hard to distinguish or identify. Enter Bing, and it looks like they may take this to a whole new level.
What is social search? It is loosely defined as a search query that includes your social graph as a factor in the results. So if I search for “The White Stripes”, I don’t just get web pages that have included that string of text, but I get pages that my friends have interacted with that include that string of text.
When done right, this will translate to a lot of better recommendations and search results.
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