Maybe I want people to know about these pages when they search for me. Perhaps Bing is doing this in the background but the free-for-all nature of the results makes me wonder.Īnother oddity if you’re thinking about Linked Pages being used for authorship is that I can link pages to content produced by someone else. A profile would allow Bing to confidently attach authorship to the content under that profile. If Bing is interested in extending the value of Linked Pages you’d think they’d want to understand which Linked Pages were other profiles versus simple content. One of the interesting things about Linked Pages is that it is linking other profiles and individual content. Linked Pages seems like the newest way to prank your friends on Facebook. I understand this is an attempt to let friends curate the pages that link to you but is this really wise? I don’t want to play a game of whac-a-mole and continually unlink pages. I should be able to accept or deny links before they go live. It does eventually get removed after a 20 minute+ delay, but that might be too long for some people. (Honey Badger don’t care!) I can unlink both offending links here but when I return to Facebook I realize that the Timeline entry is still there. I never even saw the notification for the Honey Badger which is a bit scary.
Action must be taken swiftly! So I click on the ‘Linked AJ Kohn to’ link and it takes me to the Linked Pages interface on Bing. This immediately shows up in my News Feed and on my Timeline. Sure enough I was told that Jeremy had linked me to Ke$ha. I asked my friend Jeremy Post to link something crazy to me just to see how this process works. Not only can you link yourself to any of these results but you can also link them to friends. They’re trusting users (and their ego I suppose) to link the correct content. The problem here is that there’s no bidirectional link to confirm that I really should be linked to this content. The LinkedIn page actually is me while the Myspace profile is actually my skateboarding doppelgänger.Īfter linking a few pages I did a search on my name and sure enough the Linked Pages show up. Here’s where I think things get a little strange. One last step to give Bing permission to your first born child and then you can finally get to the Linked Pages interface.įrom here you can see Bing results for your name and select which ones you want linked to you by clicking the Link to me button under that result. That’s right, Bing is using Facebook as their identity platform, much like Google is using Google+ as an identity platform. That will take you to a Facebook login page. To start you simply go to and click the blue Get started button. Yesterday Bing launched Linked Pages which allows you to “have more control in how you show up on Bing.” Is this Bing’s answer to rel=author? If it is, it’s not a very good one.
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