Comments on: Bing Linked Pages

By: Jonny Ross

Jonny Ross — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:15:30 +0000

me too…. getting the service temporarily unavailable message

love the prank friends on facebook idea let me at it!!!!

good article as always

Jonny

By: Erik | Gravytrain - Vancouver SEO

Erik | Gravytrain - Vancouver SEO — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 22:48:23 +0000

Oh this is going to be a totally awesome tool to play around with. Too bad it’s giving me a “Service Temporarily Unavailable” error whenever I try to use it. Boo hoo

By: Miranda M

Miranda M — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:19:37 +0000

I have another Miranda Miller who happens to be a writer. And another Canadian one who is a bike racer. My life could get a lot more exciting here.

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:15:40 +0000

Yes Miranda it’s a derivative of an Allie Brosh cartoon that turned into a meme.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/x-all-the-y

Facebook recently did begin an attempt to verify accounts so it’s not as easy as it was before. With Linked Pages you can link any number of pages to you. So if you have a doppelgänger out there you could link all of those pages if you wanted to. So I could be an SEO and Pro Skateboarder when people looked for me on Bing.

By: Miranda M

Miranda M — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:56:24 +0000

Is that an Allie Brosh cartoon? Love her!! You make a really good point about bi-directional confirmation. Sooo I can pretty much be anyone I want if I can start a Facebook account in that name. That’s… not awesome.

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[...] 5.GeekWire – Microsoft Bing deepens Facebook integration with ‘Linked Pages’ feature Bing allows you to log into Facebook and tie pages across the web to your profile. AJ Kohn tested the feature in this recent article. [...]

By: AJ Kohn

AJ Kohn — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:36:17 +0000

Sean,

Yes, I believe you’re right and I actually had that in the original version of this post. However, I wasn’t able to confirm this through due diligence. Once I do I’ll update the post accordingly. But if true, the fact that Linked Pages only appears for those logged into Facebook and then only for those who are already connected to you is, as you say, extremely limiting.

I too applaud Bing for moving in the direction of identity and authorship but without control over the identity platform I’m not sure how they’ll improve or make substantial headway here.

By: Sean Carlos

Sean Carlos — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:55:51 +0000

My understanding is that Linked Pages only show up when people are logged into Bing through Facebook and then only for those they’re connected to on Facebook. If this is so, the value of Linked Pages is extremely limited.

While its nice to see Microsoft moving in the direction of identity consolidation (and maybe authorship attribution?), Linked Pages seems all too reminiscent of their early webmaster tools implementation – not very useful. Their 3rd WT iteration got it more or less right, and I suspect that is what will have to happen here too.