Chat has been a hot topic this week, what with the addition of Google contacts into Outlook.com and the backlash it caused coming from Google, new abilities to chat from within SkyDrive on Outlook.com, the announcements of Google Hangouts, and a few myriad Skype updates, there was plenty of news to go around. But the week hasn’t ended, and we just got word of some chat news coming from an unlikely source: Bing.
Thanks as usual to Bing’s propensity for testing new stuff out in the wild (and to our readers for tipping us when they do, thanks Nate!), we caught an early glimpse at what looks to be a new way of interacting via search: a live chat box right from within Bing:
Here’s a closer look:
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