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Bing search gets social with your Facebook friends

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This might be quite a bit off topic.

But are any other coders a little tired of social features? I'm a pretty anti-social person. I always have a relatively small group of friends.

When more social features are added to something I do all it does is make me anxious. Since the anti-social programmer stereotype is played up quite a bit, I would assume my fellow programmers felt similarly. However the growing amount of social web applications is making me think I am alone in these feelings.

You are not alone. Many of the (real) programmers I know fit the reclusive but highly intelligent stereotype and don't have Facebook, MySpace (does it still exist?) or Twitter accounts. But all of the programmers I know would gladly profit off of the, as Zuckerburg referred to them, "dumb fucks" who just give out their information to any website that asks for it.

What annoys me more are websites that only let you log in with a facebook account. I don't want a facebook account!

Is there any website that does that (permanently, not as a “launch fast, details later” strategy)?

I have facebook account but this annoys me just as much.

I don't want to share my facebook account with random whosits.

I actually like social sites, what I think constitutes Orwellian Evil is Facebook's aspiration to force everyone to use a single Facebook account for every interaction.

i hear you, the flip side for me it reduces social anxiety. i can see what people are up to without having to interact with them directly...

A year ago, no. Today, very much so. I hope this is just a fad and not the future of the Web. I'm not confident though.

And this is why I block all of the facebook "API" things through adblock. I don't want my search provider to know who I am, and I don't want to take any chance that my facebook friends will see things like what I searched for popping up on their status feeds.

I don't want this misfeature. If it comes to google, I will probably disable my facebook.

i have been working on something similar to this:

http://www.searchstream.co

Typing "what's with the fish" into the search box had interesting results...

Fixed... thanks for the testing :-)

someone needs to do a little escaping there...

Why do people continue to make these basic mistakes?

Not enough time. It's a side project. I will fix it tonight. I am at bob Dylan concert.

That fish is terrifying..

lol... why is that? the eyes?

Make them follow the mouse for extra creepiness! Especially if it's a subtle, slow change.

I don't actually have an issue with it, I just think that could make it "terrifying". Nightmare-worthy, maybe.

Are you using what people like on FB in your results? I don't see it.

it doesn't integrate with facebook, but people are able to vote on what they like in the results.

I can't help thinking this is the future. Like it or not, taking real peoples 'likes' and 'dislikes' into the search algorithm will significantly reduce the SEO spam overload problem that is plaguing google. Its been said many times on HN that google is becoming less and less relevant. Its the problem of getting a machine to make recommendations without any human intelligence.

The future of search will take into account input from the masses, and, at the moment, facebook are the people with the best access to this information. Be afraid google.

Facebook is blurring the line between "personalization" and "social recommendations." The first tailors to your tastes. The latter influences your tastes. Clearly, the latter is more powerful from a marketing standpoint because it attaches a recognizable face to a product, rather than an explanation (or no explanation) of why your seeing x result.

"reclusive but highly intelligent stereotype", lol now I don't feel so bad. but seriously, I can't get this bing social search to work. I've tried keywords I've seen occur many times in my facebook stream. It doesn't appear to be doing any "social searching".

Holy cow, "Bing" appears in there 13 times (including the image), once even starting and ending the same sentence. 14 if you include the title of the page.

Are they being paid by the instance?

Don't make me hunt down the video of Stephen Colbert getting paid per use of the word.

SEO

by brute force

And Yahoo balked at paying $1b for FB.

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