Is Bing snapshot Microsoft’s answer to Google Authorship

First question of the day before starting any discussion, “Have you used Klout? Do you know what Klout is?” For those who don’t know what Klout is read on. Klout is a social service, where you can connect your social networks at one place to gauge your interactions. Klout generates a Klout Score which varies from 1-100 and shows your online presence. Klout gifts you with perks for using Klout, you can login to Klout with Facebook or Twitter. Now that was all about Klout in brief. Bing is Microsoft’s own search engine. It has been in public for quite a long time and is the second most used search engine after Google. Along with Klout Bing has launched it’s own version of authorship. Just like Googleauthorship which relies on the data of Google+, Bing snapshot‘s authorship relies on Klout and the LinkedIn profile of a person. Other connected networks and top posts are shown alongside the profile in search results.
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Is Bing snapshot Microsoft's answer to Google Authorship