Bing and Klout sitting in a tree…

Recently announced, Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Klout, the social media score keepers, have announced a new partnership between their two companies which will integrate Klout’s data intertwined with Bing’s search engine. Currently, Bing incorporates social results from Twitter and Facebook into its search. With this new partnership when you do a social search for someone on Klout, you will see that person’s Klout score. What is a klout score you may be wondering? Why have I not heard of this? A klout score is a person’s overall online influence on a scale from one to one hundred. Klout’s system analyzes variables from multiple social media networks based on your engagement in social media. Read more on Bing and Klout’s new partnership here.