Today Microsoft announced that it has integrated Foursquare data into the third column of Bing’s redesign. That area is reserved for social recommendations and actions. Now, users whose friends have visited the venue or location that they are searching for, and shared that they went publicly, will have that data available to help them make a decision.
Given that Bing’s Facebook integration is useful only in limited cases, this addition of Foursquare data has the potential greatly boost the efficacy of Bing’s new design. Below is what a user might see when they run a search for a location that a friend had checked into:

Read more on this new feature at thenextweb.
Tags: bing, news, social media manager




