Yandex releases social search app, tries to dodge future bullets from Facebook

Yandex, a Russian search engine, released a new social search app that lets you ask questions like, "What ice cream shops do my friends like?" But in order to escape any Facebook wrath, the company is claiming the app is a "personal assistant."

Facebook’s new Graph Search and Google: This means war

Facebook's new Graph Search is the first service that has the potential to eat Google's lunch.

With new look, Bing’s social sidebar finally starts to make sense

Following cosmetic and content improvements, Bing's solution to socially enhanced search doesn't look so bad anymore.

When Facebook and Twitter bring noise, EverySignal offers clarity

EverySignal is a new way to find the handful of important announcements from your social networks -- all your social networks -- in just one daily email digest.

Bottlenose pulls in $1M in funding for social search, Google’s achilles heel (exclusive)

With new investment in the bank, Bottlenose is angling for dominance in the social media monitoring and analytics space.

Move over Google, Bottlenose launches search engine for the “now” era

Bottlenose is to social networks what Google is to the web. At least that’s how Bottlenose CEO Nova Spivack describes his tool, launching in public beta today, for helping people make sense of what’s happening right now on Facebook, Twitter, …

Twitter set to unveil revamped search and discovery features

Popular social network Twitter will unveil significant changes to search and discovery as soon as today, according to a tweet by engineering manager Pankaj Gupta.

“Search & discovery in @twitter set to change forever after tmrw,” Gupta wrote on Twitter …

Facebook-amplified version of Bing now live for all in U.S.

The socially-augmented, Facebook-laden version of Bing’s search engine is now live for all people in the U.S., Microsoft announced today.

The new Bing, first revealed in early May, features a three column design with search results on the left; a …

The new Bing is here, start peppering your friends with questions

A week after previewing the revamped Bing, Microsoft has released the latest version of its search engine to people in the U.S. Head over to Bing.com/new to test out the new social features as well as annoy your friends with …

Bing relaunches with prettier design, improved social skills

Today, Google introduced Search Plus Your World. Wait no: Actually, Microsoft introduced more “personalized search results” in Bing using Facebook’s data, a move that looks an awful lot like the social network-enhanced search results Google announced in January.

Microsoft’s Bing …

Why Google’s new search tools might have Twitter ready to sue

Twitter’s lawyers are taking a long, hard look at Google’s new social search features, and they don’t like what they see.

With Google’s new mode of searching, social media results powered by Google+ show up among regularly ranked links and …

New Google social search “bad for the Internet,” says Twitter (updated)

Updated at at 7:38pm with comments from Google representative.

Twitter is not happy with Google‘s new social search features. So unhappy, in fact, that the company is calling it a “bad day for the Internet” and media overall.

“We’re concerned …

Google search gets its biggest change in a decade with a dose of Google+

Well, it’s finally happened. Google web search has been Google-Plus-ified.

Today, Google is bringing some specific new features to Google web search, its flagship and most widely used product. In addition to the usual assortment of links, pictures, news items …

Microsoft launches its social network — but it’s not what you think

Microsoft’s anticipated social network So.cl has arrived, but don’t expect it to be the Google+ or Facebook challenger it was widely rumored to be — at least not yet.

So.cl, pronounced social, is being billed as a site for student …

Google takes on Facebook and Bing with +1

After months of speculation about Google building something to challenge Facebook, the search giant has finally unveiled its social product +1. So what is +1? Apparently, it’s Google’s take on the Facebook Like button.

That may seem a bit underwhelming …