Bing consolidates Foursquare data to help users find locations

July 19 News, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Microsoft announced today that the Foursquare data has been integrated into the Bing sidebar. When a user searches for any location on Bing, the sidebar displays a list of friends who have signed in to the location.

After consolidating Foursquare data, Bing will help users find friends who know where they are searching, based on information they share on Foursquare, according to Microsoft.

Two months ago, Bing established partnerships with Facebook and Twitter to launch a new social-networking sidebar that integrates social data from the two companies. But earlier consolidation is less useful than the potential boost from consolidating Foursquare data.

Google is focused on its services, but it seems to be slowly moving back to the old ways of emphasizing algorithmic results, and Bing believes that social search can provide more useful information. The advantage of Bing, which is Google + only, is that it has many partners, such as Facebook and Twitter, that connect data from these companies. Bing's current penetration rate is second only to Google, which knows its target audience is a 18-34-year-old group that spends a lot of time on social networks. Therefore, in order to take advantage of this, it is necessary to redesign its search results page, called it "search + social".

Here's what the user sees when Bing searches for a location a friend has signed in to:

The feature was launched today, but it is only for the time being for American users. Bing's social initiatives are new, spokesman Kari Dillou Kari Dilloo said Bing will use user feedback to keep improving services.

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