Microsoft is now inviting Facebook fans to test a new program called Bing & Ping, which enables them to share their Bing search results with friends on various social networks, as well as email.

Results include restaurant recommendations, local movie times, flight statuses and other means by which data has been terraced.

"Say you use Bing's Instant Answers feature to check the score of the game, and you notice that your buddy's favorite team has just been beaten pretty handily," surmised Nicholas Kerr of Bing. "Say you want to 'delicately' remind him of their less-than-stellar moves with the ball." Bing & Ping empowers you to share that data with him on your socnet of choice.

Those that wish to try the feature must become fans of Bing's Facebook fan page. Once invited into the program, a Windows Live ID must be provided before instructions are given to begin.

Notably, Microsoft's own flailing web 2.0 effort, Windows Live, was left out of the Bing & Ping-ready social network pool, suggesting Microsoft may be ready to trim the mediocre performers weighing down its digital suite, preferring instead to work with more successful third-parties.