Social-web. Welcome to the social: Bing uses Facebook friends to power search. During a live event at Microsoft's headquarters today, Bing and Facebook announced that Facebook's social data is being added to Bing.
In an optional Facebook module, Bing now shows what has been "Liked" by your friends and offers Facebook-powered people search results on Bing's search results page. These new social search features, available only when an individual is logged into Facebook while searching on Bing, will begin rolling out to users today, with full availability in the coming months. New Features When you search on Bing, you'll see relevant links and results that have been "Liked" by your Facebook friends.
This is built on Facebook's public Like platform, and it allows Bing to take advantage of your social network to give you personalized search results. Bing can also surface people's information based on their relevance to the searcher's Facebook network and friends. The video below explains social search but could do better at showing the features in more detail: Advertisers get hands stuck inside HTML5 database cookie jar. Even casual Internet users know that if you want to hold your privacy in check, it's good practice to clear out your browser cookies every once in a while.
Our recent coverage about "zombie" Flash cookies has shown us, however, that simply clearing your browser cookies the old fashioned way isn't always enough. As highlighted by a study out of UC Berkeley, some companies have begun using Flash-based cookies that not only recreate themselves when deleted without the user's knowledge, they reach into the Flash storage bin for the just-deleted user info so that they can keep tracking you and your stored history instead of starting anew.
It's because of this behavior that some of our readers drew our attention to something called RLDGUID, a Safari database that has been popping up more and more on iOS devices. What is it, who put it there, and what purpose does it serve? What is Ringleader Digital? What are Safari databases? Getting back to RLDGUID: what does it do? Why should you care? IBM’s Watson is just a super search engine John Dvorak's Second Opinion. By John C.
Dvorak BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — If we learned one thing by watching the Watson computer challenge real humans on the “Jeopardy!” Game show, it’s that International Business Machines Corp. has developed a new kind of search engine. That’s what this is all about, a search engine, probably called Watson that will obviously take straight English queries and deliver answers. This Watson device should go online immediately — assuming it actually works and is scalable. Obama talks tech with Zuckerberg, Jobs President Barack Obama dines with the technology elite, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Apple’s Steve Jobs in San Francisco. All we know so far is that IBM /quotes/zigman/230066/delayed/quotes/nls/ibm IBM -0.25% intends to produce a medical-expert system using the technology.
During the heyday of the AltaVista search engine and the early days of Google Inc. But this indicated to me that the company had some interest. I don’t see why not. Hunch.