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Starting on Wednesday, Bing will take data posted on Facebook -- such as users' "likes" or preferences -- and use that information to provide more relevant search results.

The tie-up between the world's largest software company and the largest social network potentially pushes Web searches -- one of the Internet's earliest activities -- in a new direction.

It underscores the growing competition between Facebook's 500-million member service and Google, whose search business has dominated the Web in past years.

"Google owned the old Web, the content-centric Web. Facebook has early leadership in the new Web, the social web," said Ray Valdes, an analyst at industry research firm Gartner. "This is the real long-term conflict. Microsoft in that sense, is a secondary player in this new battle."

More: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69C5MW20101014

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Microsoft to assist other country which have poor technology growth because globalization is transforming the world; it brings great benefits to some countries and individual faster growth higher living standard and new opportunity. Done U know that technology-rich and - technology poor at a time when information and knowledge have begun the source of health and powerful to us, we take Education quest for development. Also as a Liberian I am appealing to the world and Microsoft Cooperation to assist us in Liberia for better technology growth. There is all ways hope for better Liberia, tomorrow if we forget about the sadness of yesterday sorrow and accept all life offers right now. Says: Othello M.K. Bueh, Starz IT/Monrovia-Liberia, e-mail addresses: bueh@un.org/obshow@yahoo.com/othellobueh@hotmail.com
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