Facebook / Bing partnership: the official announcement, and video

Today, in partnership with Facebook, Bing announced new social search features that provide a more personal search experience based on an individual’s Facebook network. In the offline world, we know people rely on friends for input and advice. Online, people are increasingly looking to their friends and social networks for advice and opinions, and search is a place many people go to find answers and complete tasks – making it a natural place for this information to come together.

These new social search features will be available when an individual is logged into Facebook while searching on Bing and will begin rolling out to users today, with full availability rolling out in the coming months. The new features include: