Bing Gets Social Search Right With Quora Integration

Bing is continuing to build out its "social search" functionality with the integration of Quora, a question-and-answer forum particularly popular among tech industry professionals.

Bing first began using Facebook data in its searches in October 2010, and introduced a social sidebar in May 2012. When the sidebar launch, the Microsoft-owned search engine promised users they would soon be able to tap into many of their social networks to help them find what they're looking for.

Here's how it works: If I run a search on "restaurants in San Francisco," for example, Bing will scan Facebook's open graph and recommend that I get in touch with a friend who lives in San Francisco. I can…
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