Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Gets More Social - Katherine Boehret - The Digital Solution - AllThingsD

Excerpt from a review of the new Bing user experience

"The new Bing is automatically available to about 20% of users starting Tuesday. If you’re not one of the 20%, you can see the new interface and Sidebar on Bing.com/new. By June 1, all features will be automatically available to everyone.
I’ve had access to this revamped Bing for the past week, and its prospects are promising. It feels cleaner and clearer. Sidebar’s integrated social knowledge of friends linked to Bing through a person’s Facebook account—or people from Twitter and blogs who are suggested by Bing—can turn the solitude of Web searching into a group activity. "

Microsoft's Bing Search Engine Gets More Social - Katherine Boehret - The Digital Solution - AllThingsD