Monday, October 03, 2011

Unsettling development with Bing + Facebook...

I'm not sure I completely understand the details, but the whole prospect of Bing using Facebook data is disturbing...

Bing Bing’s new social search features arrive today - Search Blog - Site Blogs - Bing Community:

Assuming you have selected to share information with your friends inside Facebook, you will show up in profile searches in Bing, even if you have selected not to have profile information show up in public search engines. This is similar behavior to the way Facebook works. It’s important to note that you will not show up in web searches on major search engines including Bing, just in Facebook Profile Searches within Bing conducted by your friends or friends of friends.

Facebook requires users to be 13 years of age or older to join the service. Bing originally limited profile search results to people 18 and older. Our customers told us is that if they already had a Facebook friend relationship with a person under 18, they would like those people to surface in Bing’s results as well. So we have changed that feature to allow any Facebook user who has these features active to show up in searches for their friends or friends of friends, which is more like the experience customers have within Facebook.

The way customers can control the features (turning them on and off) remains the same, and you can learn more about the features themselves at our learn more page.


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