Bing has just unveiled their new tool, Bing Social, in hopes of competing with the vast array of social media search tool. Bing Social aims to provide users with access to real-time content on Twitter and Facebook in terms of status updates.
By default, Bing Social presents updates within the past hour however; the time frame can be changed to past day and past week. Figure 1 illustrated the results for the keyword query, “B2B Social Media”
Figure 1: Bing Social Results For “B2B Social Media”
As seen in the screen shot, the results can be filtered on the basis of the following two criteria:
- Public Updates
- Shared Links
By clicking on the “Shared Links” tab, users are provided with links on the web that are posted on Twitter with the associated title of the page or article as seen in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Results Shared Links For “B2B Social Media”
In addition, Bing Social will list the tweets that contains the title of the page or article as seen in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Tweet(s) With Shared Links
For more details on Bing Social, please watch the following YouTube clip.
Bing Social is available at www.bing.com/social
