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Microsoft Rolls Out Bing Social to All Users in the United States

Last week Microsoft unveiled a ton of new features for Bing, and from what we saw, it was interesting and should slowly propel Bing to compete better with Google Search. Now after the excitement has died down a little bit, Microsoft has gone ahead and made the new redesign and features available to all users in the United States.

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