Unlike Google, Microsoft has developed a long-standing relationship with Facebook and it’s finally paying off. Microsoft has recently incorporated Facebook data with Bing’s search engine, using your social network to modify results. Bing will weigh your friends’ “likes” and alter results based on a sites’ popularity. In other news, Google has made its own changes and revamped Google News to let users dig deeper into stories. The site now displays more top stories and includes videos and photos in an expanded view. The new format also lets you filter out press releases and blog posts that often clutter the results. And finally, while we decide between using Bing or Google, Turkish citizens took to the streets protesting a new plan to filter the country’s Internet. The country will require ISPs to filter Internet content into the categories standard, children, family and domestic. All options will block thousands of sites.
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