Bing Social Sidebar Gets a Makeover

Part of your Web Presence & SEO Strategy is a Good Idea by Krista LaRiviere, gShift Labs

Following yesterday's update to Snapshots, Bing cleaned up their social sidebar today. The background has been switched from dark grey to white and the "hover cards" have disappeared - making the whole page look more uniform and less segmented. Two new section headers display now distinguishing between content from friends or experts and general content found within social media sites. Images appear directly in the sidebar feed which is probably designed to make that section more attention grabbing.

If you are in the US you will soon start to see friends, experts and enthusiasts from leading networks including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and Klout have shared at a glance.

The neatest part of this feature is that the integration searches at pretty far back into your Facebook history so you can see what you and your friends were saying in the past. For example, you can click back to the original Facebook post. Potentially relevant comments from "friends of friends" on a friend's post are also factored into the results.

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