Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

Holding on to the slightest change search engines make, Giles Turnbull tells us about Bing's addition of new Facebook features to "bring the Friend Effect to search." The plug-in lets friends see what ...

Following Google's unsuccessful rollout of its Google+-integrated social search at the beginning of the year, Bing has announced its own version of the same idea, which, interestingly, does not ...

Microsoft Thursday previewed a new version of its Bing search engine, with elements including a “social sidebar” that lets users quickly tap the knowledge of their Facebook friends for advice and ...