<p>Bing's social sidebar, which shows relevant entries from your Facebook friends, Twitter, Klout, Quora and other services, just got a lot more interactive. You can now like Facebook posts in the social sidebar and add their own comments. In addition you can now also see all of the existing comments on a post right in the sidebar, too.</p><p>This, Microsoft believes, will make the social search experience on Bing even more interactive, engaging and helpful than before.</p><p>It also, of course, means users don't have to leave Bing to engage with these posts. Chances are, after all, that they will get distracted by all of the other goodies Facebook has to offer once they leave Bing and won't return anytime soon.</p><p>Personally, I've never found these social search results all that useful. Microsoft, however, clearly believes that this, in combination with the they are doing around semantic search, will allow it to continue to compete with Google, which seems to have de-emphasized social search over the last few months.</p><p><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/10/bing-now-allows-users-to-like-and-comment-on-facebook-entries-right-from-its-social-sidebar/">Keep reading...</a></p>