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Former Bing Product Lead: Why Personalized Social Search Is Unrealistic (For Now)

"If every user that comes [to Bing or Google] is getting a personalized experience based on Facebook data, based on the web graph, based on the social graph--holy crap, that's a lot of processes to do," says Mark Johnson. "I think the economics just aren't there."READ»

Bing's Social Search Won't Always Rely On Facebook "Likes"

"It's not ten years, not five years away, it's a couple years away--tops--where social is literally so imbued into the experience that it's just another ranking factor like anything else," says Stefan Weitz, director at Bing.READ»

Check This Out: Google's Very Own "Like" Button

You click on stuff that your friends like. It's a simple enough fact, but it's tremendously important. READ»

Google Gives More Prominence to Social Search

Google's just raised the stakes for its Social Search, peppering your search results with links from your pals, adding context, and giving you control over whose links you see. READ»

SEO Experts know Secret Formulas for Search Engine Ranking

Search companies like Google, Bing/Yahoo, will never voluntarily disclose how their servers determine exactly why, and how their search engine ranking systems work they way they do. The understood reason, suggested by most seo ...READ»

CrowdEye Twitter Search Dives Into Over-Crowded Social Search Pool

Developed by Microsoft's former search engineering team leader Ken Moss and his wife Becca, CrowdEye scans through tweets, retweets and twitter links in real time, aggregating posts based on a keyword search and allowing you to categorize, chart and analyze the data in ways that a standard Twitter search can't.READ»