Microsoft’s ‘Bing Boards’ allows users to curate search results

Microsoft’s push to make its Bing search engine more social will take it in a new direction—actually letting a select group of users curate results, PC World reports. Microsoft’s “experiment,” known as Bing Boards, will allow a small group of food and lifestyle bloggers, experts, and social influencers to cultivate their own selection of search results on a given topic. The Board will be a visual collection of images, videos and links that tell the story from the blogger’s point of view, Microsoft said. These results won’t replace the search result that Bing normally returns, but will sit alongside them within the middle column of Bing’s search results, Chen Fang, program manager of Bing Experiences, said in a blog post…

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